Patrick Sinclair
Biographic Data
| ID | 5626109 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Sinclair |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Sinclair |
| SIGNATURE | SINCLAIR P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rhetoric of Writing and Reading in the Preface to Pliny’S Naturalis Historia
This chapter focuses on the rhetoric of tropes governing the preface. Pliny uses the rhetorical conventions of epistolarity to frame how the Naturalis Historia is read to benefit oneself as a public servant and citizen. Pliny's preface, as it enacts a specific manner of interpreting his Naturalis Historia , shows how interpretation itself can be politically interested, how claims for a reading are always direct attempts to affect power relations …
Tacitus the Sententious Historian
Political Declensions in Latin Grammar and Oratory 55 BCE - CE 39
In a discussion of the rhetorical styles of Caesar and the early principes, Fronto formulates the maxim that imperium...non potestatis tantummodo uocabulum, sed etiam orationis (‘’command’...is a word connoting not only power, but also oratory’ [p.123.16-17 van den Hout]). This essay will explore the political background and implications of trends and shifts in Roman ways of thinking about language and oratory in the transition from Republic to P…
Tacitus' Presentation of Livia Julia, Wife of Tiberius' Son Drusus
Political Declensions in Latin Grammar and Oratory 55 BCE - CE 39
In a discussion of the rhetorical styles of Caesar and the early principes, Fronto formulates the maxim that imperium...non potestatis tantummodo uocabulum, sed etiam orationis (‘’command’...is a word connoting not only power, but also oratory’ [p.123.16-17 van den Hout]). This essay will explore the political background and implications of trends and shifts in Roman ways of thinking about language and oratory in the transition from Republic to P…
Tacitus the Sententious Historian
Tacitus' Presentation of Livia Julia, Wife of Tiberius' Son Drusus
Tacitus' Presentation of Livia Julia, Wife of Tiberius' Son Drusus
Political Declensions in Latin Grammar and Oratory 55 BCE - CE 39
In a discussion of the rhetorical styles of Caesar and the early principes, Fronto formulates the maxim that imperium...non potestatis tantummodo uocabulum, sed etiam orationis (‘’command’...is a word connoting not only power, but also oratory’ [p.123.16-17 van den Hout]). This essay will explore the political background and implications of trends and shifts in Roman ways of thinking about language and oratory in the transition from Republic to P…
Tacitus the Sententious Historian
Rhetoric of Writing and Reading in the Preface to Pliny’S Naturalis Historia
This chapter focuses on the rhetoric of tropes governing the preface. Pliny uses the rhetorical conventions of epistolarity to frame how the Naturalis Historia is read to benefit oneself as a public servant and citizen. Pliny's preface, as it enacts a specific manner of interpreting his Naturalis Historia , shows how interpretation itself can be politically interested, how claims for a reading are always direct attempts to affect power relations …
Classical Antiquity Studies (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Rhetoric (2 works) · Cicero (1 work)