Gildenhard's book is a comprehensive study of the ways in which Cicero's oratory ... depolyed theoretically informed modes of thinking

Times Literary Supplement

Gildenhard's book is ambitious, detailed and impressively learned

Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The book is eloquent and well structured, which helps the reader to get through the rich material and aids further thinking on both individual elements and the entire project. Another strength of the book is that it invites discussion and one does not have to agree with all the analysis or conclusions to benefit from this extravaganza of ideas.

Henriette van der Blom, Journal of Roman Studies

The statesman Cicero (106-43 BC) left behind a corpus of about 50 orations, all designed as interventions in the legal and political struggles that marked the final decades of the Roman republic. Ever since their publication during his lifetime they have functioned as models of eloquence. However, they also contain profound philosophical thoughts on the question of being human, on politics, society, and culture, and on the sphere of the divine. Now, for the first time, Ingo Gildenhard systematically analyses this dimension of Cicero's oratory and, in so doing, touches upon many key issues and concepts that still preoccupy us today, such as the ethics of happiness or the notion of conscience, the distinction between civilization and barbarity, or the problem of divine justice.
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A study of the orations of the Roman statesman Cicero (106-43 BC). Ingo Gildenhard does not treat them simply as models of eloquence, as previous critics have done, but as repositories for Cicero's most profound thinking on such perennial questions as the ethics of happiness, the notion of conscience, and the problem of divine justice.
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Introduction: Cicero's philosophical oratory ; I. ANTHROPOLOGY ; Introduction: Ethopoiea and anthropopoiesis ; 1. Being human ; 2. Human beings ; 3. The good, the bad, and the in-between ; 4. Mental states ; II. SOCIOLOGY ; Introduction: Imagining community ; 5. Definition and the politics of truth ; 6. Laws and justice ; 7. Civilization and its discontents ; 8. Coping with Caesar ; III. THEOLOGY ; Introduction: Rome's civic religion ; 9. Ontological elevation and divine favouritism ; 10. Cicero's theodicy ; 11. Tyranny and the divine ; 12. Life after death ; CONCLUSION
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Provides a fresh assessment of Cicero's oratory, especially of its philosophical dimension Investigates Cicero's conceptual creativity within the wider context of the political culture of the late Roman republic Focuses on Cicero's handling of themes and issues that continue to preoccupy us today, such as conscience, civic ethics, and justice
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Provides a fresh assessment of Cicero's oratory, especially of its philosophical dimension Investigates Cicero's conceptual creativity within the wider context of the political culture of the late Roman republic Focuses on Cicero's handling of themes and issues that continue to preoccupy us today, such as conscience, civic ethics, and justice
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ISBN
9780199291557
Publisert
2010
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
850 gr
Høyde
241 mm
Bredde
171 mm
Dybde
31 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
464

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