Cicero's Philippics and Their Demosthenic Model
Author | : Cecil W. Wooten |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807815588 |
Cicero's Philippics and Their Demosthenic Model: The Rhetoric of Crisis
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Author | : Cecil W. Wooten |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807815588 |
Cicero's Philippics and Their Demosthenic Model: The Rhetoric of Crisis
Author | : Demosthenes |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2019-07-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107021332 |
This edition of five of Demosthenes' Assembly speeches arguing for a military response to Philip II of Macedon is aimed at students. The extensive introduction and grammatical notes fully explicate the Greek text and provide abundant detail and up-to-date references to help readers understand the historical and literary context.
Author | : Demosthenes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2016-08-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781373416087 |
Author | : Ingo Gildenhard |
Publisher | : Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2018-09-03 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1783745924 |
Cicero composed his incendiary Philippics only a few months after Rome was rocked by the brutal assassination of Julius Caesar. In the tumultuous aftermath of Caesar’s death, Cicero and Mark Antony found themselves on opposing sides of an increasingly bitter and dangerous battle for control. Philippic 2 was a weapon in that war. Conceived as Cicero’s response to a verbal attack from Antony in the Senate, Philippic 2 is a rhetorical firework that ranges from abusive references to Antony’s supposedly sordid sex life to a sustained critique of what Cicero saw as Antony’s tyrannical ambitions. Vituperatively brilliant and politically committed, it is both a carefully crafted literary artefact and an explosive example of crisis rhetoric. It ultimately led to Cicero’s own gruesome death. This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, vocabulary aids, study questions, and an extensive commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Ingo Gildenhard’s volume will be of particular interest to students of Latin studying for A-Level or on undergraduate courses. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis to encourage critical engagement with Cicero, his oratory, the politics of late-republican Rome, and the transhistorical import of Cicero’s politics of verbal (and physical) violence.
Author | : |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0292783035 |
This is the sixth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. These translations are especially designed for the needs and interests of today's undergraduates, Greekless scholars in other disciplines, and the general public. Classical oratory is an invaluable resource for the study of ancient Greek life and culture. The speeches offer evidence on Greek moral views, social and economic conditions, political and social ideology, law and legal procedure, and other aspects of Athenian culture that have been largely ignored: women and family life, slavery, and religion, to name just a few. Demosthenes is regarded as the greatest orator of classical antiquity; indeed, his very eminence may be responsible for the inclusion under his name of a number of speeches he almost certainly did not write. This volume contains four speeches that are most probably the work of Apollodorus, who is often known as "the Eleventh Attic Orator." Regardless of their authorship, however, this set of ten law court speeches gives a vivid sense of public and private life in fourth-century BC Athens. They tell of the friendships and quarrels of rural neighbors, of young men joined in raucous, intentionally shocking behavior, of families enduring great poverty, and of the intricate involvement of prostitutes in the lives of citizens. They also deal with the outfitting of warships, the grain trade, challenges to citizenship, and restrictions on the civic role of men in debt to the state.
Author | : Demosthenes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Demosthenes |
Publisher | : Sagwan Press |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2015-08-22 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781298988294 |
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Author | : Demosthenes |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2013-03-04 |
Genre | : Athens (Greece) |
ISBN | : 9781482688535 |
Most of Demosthenes' major orations were directed against the growing power of King Philip II of Macedon. Since 357 BC, when Philip seized Amphipolis and Pydna, Athens had been formally at war with the Macedonians.[60] In 352 BC, Demosthenes characterized Philip as the very worst enemy of his city; his speech presaged the fierce attacks that Demosthenes would launch against the Macedonian king over the ensuing years. A year later he criticized those dismissing Philip as a person of no account and warned that he was as dangerous as the King of Persia.