Jonathan Powell / Jeremy Paterson (eds.)

Cicero the Advocate

Ed. by Jonathan Powell and Jeremy Paterson

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Cicero's courtroom speeches are the most significant examples we have of the art of the ancient Roman advocate. This collection of essays aims to set them in the context of the Roman legal system and of ancient techniques of persuasion, and to compare their methods with those available to modern advocates.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 710g
• ISBN-13: 9780199298297
• ISBN-10: 0199298297
• Artikelnr.: 20813965

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Powell is Professor of Latin, Royal Holloway, University of London. Jeremy Paterson is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* I. Themes
* 1: Andrew Lintott: Legal Procedure in Cicero's Time
* 2: Jeremy Paterson: Self-Reference in Cicero's Forensic Speeches
* 3: Kathryn Lomas: A Volscian Mafia? Cicero and his Italian Clients in
the Forensic Speeches
* 4: David Levene: Allusion in Cicero's Narratives
* 5: Jill Harries: Cicero and the Law
* 6: Andrew Riggsby: The Rhetoric of Character in the Roman Courts
* 7: Christopher Craig: Audience Expectations, Invective, and Proof
* 8: Michael Winterbottom: Cicero's Perorations
* II. Case Studies
* 9: Catherine Steel: Being Economical with the Truth: What Really
Happened at Lampsacus (Verrines II 1)
* 10: Lynn Fotheringham: Repetition and Structure in a Civil Law
Speech: The Pro Caecina
* 11: Christopher Burnand: The Advocate as a Professional: The Role of
the Patronus in Cicero's Pro Cluentio
* 12: Dominic Berry: Literature and Persuasion in Pro Archia
* 13: Wilfried Stroh: De Domo sua: Legal Problem and Structure
* 14: Jeff Johnson: The Dilemma of Cicero's Speech for Ligarius
* Epilogue
* 15: John Laws: Cicero and the Modern Advocate

Rezensionen

Review from previous edition 'Cicero the Advocate - he's back, he's bad, and he's taking names!' Or so the voice-over for the trailer would growl, if this surprisingly feisty volume were a summer blockbuster coming to a movie screen near you . . . Not quite a decade after his collection Cicero the Philosopher helped make 1995 a watershed in the re-evaluation of that portion of the oeuvre, Jonathan Powell has joined with Jeremy Paterson to produce a worthy successor. The standard maintained is uniformly high, and excellence is not uncommon. We can hope that Oxford will provide a paperback version sooner rather than later, at a price teachers and even their students can actually afford. Bryn Mawr Classical Review