Creative Eloquence: The Construction of Reality in Cicero's Speeches by Ingo Gil

by Ingo Gil

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Creative Eloquence by Ingo Gildenhard Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description 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. Publisher Description 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 firsttime, 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 happinessor the notion of conscience, the distinction between civilization and barbarity, or the problem of divine justice. Details ISBN 0199291551 ISBN-13 9780199291557 Title Creative Eloquence Author Ingo Gildenhard Format Hardcover Year 2010 Pages 464 Publisher Oxford University Press GE_Item_ID:137027636; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal pl

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 2011
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780199291557
• Condition: Fine

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