书名: Cicero, Rhetoric, and Empire (Oxford Classical Monographs)
作者: C. E. W. Steel (Author)
出版社: Oxford University Press, USA (April 8, 2002)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0199248478
ISBN-13: 978-0199248476
Book Description
Cicero manipulated issues relevant to Rome's possession of an empire (provincial extortion, access to citizenship, and the distribution of military commands) in an important group of speeches: the Verrines, de imperio Cn. Pompei, pro Archia, pro Flacco, de provinciis consularibus, and pro Balbo. C.E.W. Steel examines the speeches' rhetorical techniques and aims in detail. Cicero's presentation of empire concentrates on the power wielded by individuals at the expense of wider questions of administrative structures. Thus the problems which arise in the running of an empire can be presented as the result of personal failings rather than endemic to the structures of government - as questions of morality rather than of administration. Steel argues that this concept is fundamentally flawed. The weakness cannot be explained simply as Cicero's lack of insight, but as an inevitable consequence of the uses to which he puts oratory in his political career: comparison with his contemporaries shows other leading figures producing much more radical approaches to the problems of empire.
Review
"Essential reading for serious students of Cicero the man and of Ciceronian persuasion." -- Religious Studies Review
About the Author
C.E.W. Steel is Lecturer in Classics, University of Glasgow
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作者: C. E. W. Steel (Author)
出版社: Oxford University Press, USA (April 8, 2002)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0199248478
ISBN-13: 978-0199248476
Book Description
Cicero manipulated issues relevant to Rome's possession of an empire (provincial extortion, access to citizenship, and the distribution of military commands) in an important group of speeches: the Verrines, de imperio Cn. Pompei, pro Archia, pro Flacco, de provinciis consularibus, and pro Balbo. C.E.W. Steel examines the speeches' rhetorical techniques and aims in detail. Cicero's presentation of empire concentrates on the power wielded by individuals at the expense of wider questions of administrative structures. Thus the problems which arise in the running of an empire can be presented as the result of personal failings rather than endemic to the structures of government - as questions of morality rather than of administration. Steel argues that this concept is fundamentally flawed. The weakness cannot be explained simply as Cicero's lack of insight, but as an inevitable consequence of the uses to which he puts oratory in his political career: comparison with his contemporaries shows other leading figures producing much more radical approaches to the problems of empire.
Review
"Essential reading for serious students of Cicero the man and of Ciceronian persuasion." -- Religious Studies Review
About the Author
C.E.W. Steel is Lecturer in Classics, University of Glasgow
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