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The state of speech :

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0691123640

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0691162255

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9780691123646

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The state of speech :

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[Book]

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rhetoric and political thought in Ancient Rome /

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Joy Connolly

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xii, 304 pages ;

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24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references (page [275-293]) and index

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Rhetoric and political thought -- Founding the state of speech -- Naturalized citizens -- The body politic -- The aesthetics of virtue -- Republican theater -- Imperial reenactments -- The Ciceronian citizen in a global world

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"Rhetorical theory, the core of Roman education, taught rules of public speaking that are still influential today. But Roman rhetoric has long been regarded as having little important to say about political ideas. The State of Speech presents a forceful challenge to this view. The first book to read Roman rhetorical writing as a mode of political thought, it focuses on Rome's greatest practitioner and theorist of public speech, Cicero. Through new readings of his dialogues and treatises, Joy Connolly shows how Cicero's treatment of the Greek rhetorical tradition's central questions is shaped by his ideal of the republic and the citizen. Rhetoric, Connolly argues, sheds new light on Cicero's deepest political preoccupations: the formation of individual and communal identity, the communicative role of the body, and the "unmanly" aspects of politics, especially civility and compromise. Transcending traditional lines between rhetorical and political theory, The State of Speech is a major contribution to the current debate over the role of public speech in Roman politics. Instead of a conventional, top-down model of power, it sketches a dynamic model of authority and consent enacted through oratorical performance and examines how oratory modeled an ethics of citizenship for the masses as well as the elite. It explains how imperial Roman rhetoricians reshaped Cicero's ideal republican citizen to meet the new political conditions of autocracy, and defends Ciceronian thought as a resource for contemporary democracy."--Jacket

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Rhetoric and political thought in Ancient Rome

Cicero, Marcus Tullius-- Criticism and interpretation

Cicero, Marcus Tullius-- Political and social views

Political science-- Philosophy

Rhetoric, Ancient

Rome (Empire), Politics and government, 265 B.C.-30 B.C

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Connolly, Joy,1970-

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20150422233014.0

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[Book]

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