Download or read book Plutarch Demosthenes and Cicero written by Plutarch and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch's Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero are an unusual pair in that they are about orators and not military men. With the translations and commentaries, Lintott provides a detailed introduction which discusses the context of the texts, the author, and the philosophy which underlies Plutarch's presentation of the two personalities.
Download or read book Cicero s Philippics and Their Demosthenic Model written by Cecil W. Wooten III and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-08-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Cicero's Phillipics are his most mature speeches, they have received little attention as works of oratory. On the other hand, scholars in this century have considered Cicero's attitudes toward and dependence on Demosthenes to be an issue of importance. Cecil Wooten brings together these two concerns, linking Cicero's use of Demosthenes as a model in the Phillipics to precise analyses of style, rhetorical modulation, and narrative technique. In doing so he defines and demonstrates the effectiveness of a type of oratory that he terms "the rhetoric of crisis." Characteristic of such rhetoric is the polarization of a conflict into a dichotomy between good and evil, right and wrong. The orator adopts a stance in which he is obsessed with the struggle, with victory, and with the preservation of a tradition. He defines his present crisis in terms of patterns that have appeared in the past, which means that he is likely to choose from the past a model for his own response to the crisis. In Demosthenes, Cicero found a statesman that had faced a similar political situation. Demosthenes' speeches were directed against Philip of Macedon, whose expanding empire threatened the survival of the Greek city-states. Antony posed an equally severe threat to the Roman republic, and Cicero therefore turned to Demosthenes' speeches as a model for his own. The oratory of both was forged during a period of supreme crisis, at a critical turning point in civilization. "Tremendous talent," Wooten writes of this oratory, "is coupled with the instinct for survival, the most basic of human impulses, to produce a form of oratory that is characterized by extreme clarity of vision, purposefulness, vividness, and rapidity of presentation, an oratory that is clean and direct and decisive, in which the organic synthesis of content, arrangement, and style is remarkable and striking." Originally published 1983. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Download or read book Demosthenes and Cicero Alexander and Caesar written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plutarch Demosthenes and Cicero written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lintott provides a detailed introduction which discusses the background and context of the lives of Demosthenes and Cicero essential information about the author and the periods in which these two orators lived, and the philosophy which underlies Plutarch's presentation of the two personalities.
Download or read book Demosthenes and Cicero Alexander and Caesar written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Demosthenes and Cicero Alexander and Caesar written by Plutarchos and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Demosthenes and Cicero Alexander and Caesar written by Plutarchos and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Aeneid Workbook Old Western Culture written by Callihan Wesley and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Plutarch Project Volume Four written by Anne E White and published by Anne E. White. This book was released on 2018-04-11 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fourth volume in The Plutarch Project tells the stories of two famous orators, and a general's son who became king of Macedon. The book includes vocabulary, discussion questions, and other aids for students and parents/teachers, plus edited text for the Lives of Demosthenes, Cicero, and Demetrius.
Download or read book Galatians and the Rhetoric of Crisis written by Nina E. Livesey and published by . This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Livesey lays the works of Demosthenes, Cicero, and the Apostle Paul side-by-side and compares the rhetorical strategies that each used to win over their audiences. In doing so, she teases out the ambiguity and complexity of Paul's letter to the Galatians and challenges simplistic explanations of his relationship to Judaism.
Download or read book Demosthenes and Cicero written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cicero Greek Learning and the Making of a Roman Classic written by Caroline Bishop and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman statesman, orator, and author Marcus Tullius Cicero is the embodiment of a classic: his works have been read continuously from antiquity to the present, his style is considered the model for classical Latin, and his influence on Western ideas about the value of humanistic pursuits is both deep and profound. However, despite the significance of subsequent reception in ensuring his canonical status, Cicero, Greek Learning, and the Making of a Roman Classic demonstrates that no one is more responsible for Cicero's transformation into a classic than Cicero himself, and that in his literary works he laid the groundwork for the ways in which he is still remembered today. The volume presents a new way of understanding Cicero's career as an author by situating his textual production within the context of the growth of Greek classicism: the movement had begun to flourish shortly before his lifetime and he clearly grasped its benefits both for himself and for Roman literature more broadly. By strategically adapting classic texts from the Greek world, and incorporating into his adaptations the interpretations of the Hellenistic philosophers, poets, rhetoricians, and scientists who had helped enshrine those works as classics, he could envision and create texts with classical authority for a parallel Roman canon. Ranging across a variety of genres - including philosophy, rhetoric, oratory, poetry, and letters - this close study of Cicero's literary works moves from his early translation of Aratus' poetry (and its later reappearance through self-quotation) to Platonizing philosophy, Aristotelian rhetoric, Demosthenic oratory, and even a planned Greek-style letter collection. Juxtaposing incisive analysis of how Cicero consciously adopted classical Greek writers as models and predecessors with detailed accounts of the reception of those figures by Greek scholars of the Hellenistic period, the volume not only offers ground-breaking new insights into Cicero's ascension to canonical status, but also a salutary new account of Greek intellectual life and its effect on Roman literature.
Download or read book Plutarch s Lives of Themistocles Pericles Aristides Alchibiades and Coriolanus Demosthenes and Cicero Caesar and Antony written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plutarch s Lives of Themistocles Pericles Aristides Alcibiades and Coriolanus Demosthenes and Cicero C sar and Antony written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 7 Demosthenes and Cicero written by Plutarchus and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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