...Laura Samponaro This paper examines how Cicero forges a late style in the Second Philippic that reflects the political stance he adopts in the face of existential crisis. The fluidity of Cicero’s trademark, consular hypotactic style hardens into a paratactic, rigid crisis style in the Philippics...

... Society for the History of Rhetoric Rhetorica ad Herennium declamation mimesis Cicero exemplarity oratory LUCA GRILLO An Exemplary Declamation in Defense of Rhetoric (Rh. Her. 4.1 10) Abstract: In the prologue to the Rhetorica ad Herennium book 4, Cornificius boldly departs from tradition...

.... Das dient ihm als Argument für den Führungsanspruch Athens in Hellas. Soziologisch betrachtet ist dieser von Hegel herausgehobene Bildungsgedanke auch von politischer Wirkung. Die niemals gehaltenen Reden des Isokrates beweisen dies. Publizistik Isokrates Symbolizität Cicero Sophistik Ernst...

...Hannah Čulík-Baird Cicero's Pro Archia has historically been taken as a bona fide expression of humanism. In this article, I demonstrate how this reading of the Pro Archia has allowed the political and cultural tensions in the speech to remain hidden. Cicero's vision of Archias as an idealized...

...Laura Samponaro The following comparison of Cicero's Verrines with Barack Obama's 2008 campaign rhetoric reveals the parallelism between these candidates’ stylistic responses to the challenges of novitas , as they turn obstacle into advantage and transform change into tradition. Through similar...

...Joanna Kenty Messalla Corvinus, celebrated as one of the greatest orators of the generation after Cicero, offers an ideal case study for political life in the triumviral period and early principate. His distinctive style is reminiscent of what Cicero described as the middle style, exemplified...

... to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2016 voice performance medicine Cicero Auctor ad Herennium Quintilian VERENA SCHULZ Rhetoric and Medicine The Voice...

... duties of rhetoric. Keywords: Leviathan, Aristotle, Cicero, political oratory P erhaps no philosopher has a more complicated relation- ship with rhetoric than Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). Hobbes was intimately acquainted with rhetoric: his A Briefe of the Art of Rhetorique (1637) was the first English...

...Christopher P. Craig Pro Sulla §§18–19 demonstrates a tactic of self-depiction unique in Cicero's speeches; the orator represents an internal dialogue in which his natural kindness towards the Catilinarian Autronius is overcome by arguments that his audience can recognize as the prosecutor's stock...

... of “comparison,” which Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian all theorize as a subtype of example. Taken together, their rhetorical theories suggest that arguments by comparison are hypothetical, contentious, indirect, interrogative, and frequently deceptive. Moreover, Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian all theorize...

...Gary Remer Notwithstanding the widespread assumption that Aristotle forges a better relationship among rhetoric, the emotions, and political morality than Cicero, I contend that Cicero, not Aristotle, offers a more relevant account of the relationship among these terms. I argue that, by grounding...

...Valentina Bonsangue The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how Cicero in his in Vatinium employs the iconic power of the body of the accused, Vatinius, and its repulsive strumae as a logical tool to support his persuasion strategy, thereby creating an enthymeme based upon the premises provided...

... Aristotle Cicero epideictic mimesis oratory plainness prose style James Egan Rhetorica, Vol. XXXI, Issue 1, pp. 73 109, ISSN 0734-8584, electronic ISSN 1533- 8541. ©2013 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights re- served. Please direct all requests for permission...

...Gesine Manuwald This paper discusses the function of speeches given by Cicero to the popular assembly ( contio ) as reports about recent political events or decrees. Several of the few extant examples are part of oratorical corpora consisting of speeches from politically difficult periods, namely...

... by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved. 2011 Rhetoric of science seventeenth-century rhetoric England Thomas Sprat Cicero Tina Skouen Rhetorica, Vol. XXIX, Issue 1, pp. 23 52, ISSN 0734-8584, electronic ISSN 1533- 8541. ©2011 by The International Society...

...Michele Kennerly In his avowedly Stoic De Officiis , Cicero publicizes the persuasive power of a conversational manner, a communicative style consonant with Stoicism's emphasis on human togetherness. The relationships between and among conversation ( sermo ), Stoicism, and rhetoric call...

...Stephen Usher This paper argues that Cicero's reading of Demosthenes' De corona and his preoccupation with Demosthenes at the time he was composing the Brutus and in particular the Orator are evident in the list of thirty-four sententiae (“figures of thought”) given at Orator 137–9. Examples of all...

...Tania Smith Popular eighteenth-century British biographies of Cicero had a significant impact on the rhetorical identity formation of Elizabeth Montagu (1720–1800). As the acknowledged founder of the “Bluestocking” salon, Elizabeth Montagu played a key role in forming the conversational...