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The world of Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus : aesthetics and empire in ancient Rome
- Title
- The world of Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus : aesthetics and empire in ancient Rome / Christopher S. van den Berg.
- Author
- Van den Berg, Christopher Sean
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 14-7581 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xiii, 344 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Coming to terms with the rhetorical arts of antiquity necessarily illuminates our own ideas of public discourse and the habits of speech to which they have led. Tacitus wrote the Dialogus at a time (ca. 100 CE) when intense scrutiny of the history, the definitions, and the immediate relevance of public speech were all being challenged and refashioned by a host of vibrant intellects and ambitious practitioners. This book challenges the notion that Tacitus sought to explain the decline of oratory under the Principate. Rather, from examination of the dynamics of argument in the dialogue and the underlying literary traditions there emerges a sophisticated consideration of eloquentia in the Roman Empire. Tacitus emulates Cicero's legacy and challenges his position at the top of Rome's oratorical canon. He further shows that eloquentia is a means by which to compete with the power of the Principate"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- Introduction: rhetorical beginnings and rhetorical ends; 1. The Dialogus and its contexts; 2. Interpretations; 3. Interstitial strategies and reading around the speeches; 4. A world of eloquentia; 5. An aetiology of contemporary eloquentia; 6. From De oratore to De oratoribus; 7. Literary criticism and history: Cicero, Horace, and Quintilian in the Dialogus; Conclusion; Appendix: detailed outline of Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-7581
- ISBN
- 9781107020900 (hardback)
- 1107020905 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2014008495
- OCLC
- 874733212
- Author
- Van den Berg, Christopher Sean, author.
- Title
- The world of Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus : aesthetics and empire in ancient Rome / Christopher S. van den Berg.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-7581