That Tyrant, Persuasion (eBook)

How Rhetoric Shaped the Roman World

J. E. Lendon (Autor)

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2022
328 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22102-1 (ISBN)

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How rhetorical training influenced deeds as well as words in the Roman EmpireThe assassins of Julius Caesar cried out that they had killed a tyrant, and days later their colleagues in the Senate proposed rewards for this act of tyrannicide. The killers and their supporters spoke as if they were following a well-known script. They were. Their education was chiefly in rhetoric and as boys they would all have heard and given speeches on a ubiquitous set of themesincluding one asserting that ';he who kills a tyrant shall receive a reward from the city.' In That Tyrant, Persuasion, J. E. Lendon explores how rhetorical education in the Roman world influenced not only the words of literature but also momentous deeds: the killing of Julius Caesar, what civic buildings and monuments were built, what laws were made, and, ultimately, how the empire itself should be run.Presenting a new account of Roman rhetorical education and its surprising practical consequences, That Tyrant, Persuasion shows how rhetoric created a grandiose imaginary world for the Roman ruling eliteand how they struggled to force the real world to conform to it. Without rhetorical education, the Roman world would have been unimaginably different.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 5 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Briefe / Präsentation / Rhetorik
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 30s BC • actio • Adult • adultery • Ahala • Allegory • american journal of sociology • Ammianus Marcellinus • Ancient Rome • And babies • Antoninus Pius • areopagitica • Atticism • Aulus Gellius • Autun • Books of Kings • bride price • Caracalla • Cass Sunstein • catiline • Cesare Borgia • Cesare Lombroso • classical republicanism • Classicism • Claudian • Clifford Geertz • Commodus • Contract • Counter-Reformation • curator • declamation • Declaration of Sports • de facto • De Inventione • Dentist • diocletian • Diodorus Siculus • Disenchantment • documentary evidence • Domitian • dowry • Economics • economy • Egypt (Roman province) • Employment • Engagement controversy • Engagers • Enoch Powell • Escort agency • Essay • etymology • Euripides • fornication • Frontinus • Gordian III • Harmodius and Aristogeiton (sculpture) • Hellenistic period • Herbert Marcuse • Household • Hubris • Hydra effect • hypothesis • Ideology • Imperial cult (ancient Rome) • Impossibility • iniuria • Judicial Activism • Judith Butler • Juvenal • Kenneth Burke • Late Antiquity • Lecture • Libanius • Literature • livy • loeb classical library • Lucius Junius Brutus • Machiavellianism • Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (triumvir) • Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger • Mark Antony • Marxism • mixed government • monetization • Mutatis mutandis • Narcissism • nepotism • Niccolò Machiavelli • Objectivity (philosophy) • of education • Oliver Cromwell • Our Choice • Pamphylia • Parody • pathogen • Patriarchy • Patrician (ancient Rome) • Payment • Persuasion • Philosopher • Pilgrimage of Grace • Poetry • Politics • Polyaenus • Poverty • Power of the Sword • praetor • Pragmatism • Prediction • proconsul • Productivity • Profession • Progymnasmata • Prosecutor • Prostitution • Puritans • Quentin Skinner • Quietism (Christian philosophy) • Quintilian • Rab Butler • Racism • Renunciation • Republicanism • respect • res publica • rhetoric • Rhetorica ad Herennium • Right of conquest • Rivers of Blood speech • roman citizenship • Roman Empire • Roman law • salary • Second Sophistic • Seneca the Elder • seneca the younger • Sententiae • Severus Alexander • Sexaholics Anonymous • sexual intercourse • Sexuality in ancient Rome • social relation • Social Science • Sophocles • spouse • Suetonius • Sulla • Superiority (short story) • The Faerie Queene • The Machiavellian Moment • The Other Hand • The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates • Thucydides • Tiberius Gracchus • Transvaluation of values • Tyrant • Ulpian • Understanding • Valentinian (play) • Volumnia • workplace
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22102-2 / 0691221022
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22102-1 / 9780691221021