Creative eloquence: the construction of reality in Cicero's speeches
Gildenhard, Ingo
A study of the orations of the Roman statesman Cicero (106-43 BC). Ingo Gildenhard does not treat them simply as models of eloquence, as previous critics have done, but as repositories for Cicero's most profound thinking on such perennial questions as the ethics of happiness, the notion of conscience, and the problem of divine justice. INDICE: Introduction: Cicero's philosophical oratory; I. Anthropology; Introduction: Ethopoiea and anthropopoiesis; 1: Being human; 2: Human beings; 3: The good, the bad, and the in-between; 4: Mental states; II. Sociology; Introduction: Imagining community; 5: Definition and the politics of truth; 6: Laws and justice; 7: Civilization and its discontents; 8: Coping with Caesar; III. Theology; Introduction: Rome's civic religion; 9: Ontological elevation anddivine favouritism; 10: Cicero's theodicy; 11: Tyranny and the divine; 12: Life after death; Conclusion
- ISBN: 978-0-19-929155-7
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 464
- Fecha Publicación: 25/11/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés