A Survey of Selected Recent Work on Cicero’s Rhetorica and Speeches
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20067023 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher P Craig (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Pages | 503-531 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Brill's Companion to Cicero (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789047400936_018 |
| OpenAlex | W880905776 |
| ISBN | 9789047400936 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
This chapter is a very selective survey of recent work in two related areas of Cicero's literary production, his speeches and his rhetorical works. After dutifully cataloguing texts and translations, it attempts to extrapolate promising directions for work on Ciceronian oratory and rhetoric in the coming decade. The most important contributions to the study of Cicero's style have come in the empirically grounded study of sentence structure divorced from larger normative schemes, the attention devoted to the colon and to the rhythmic closes of the subunits of a sentence, progress on the method of analyzing rhythmic closes at sentence ends, and detailed accounts of the relationship between style and argument in specific passages. All of these directions, some supported by a more sophisticated use of the computer-assisted analytical tools, show promise for future research. Keywords: Ciceronian oratory; Ciceronian rhetorical works; literary production
Art · Cicero · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Normative · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Sentence · Chemistry · Classical Antiquity Studies · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.32 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2022 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |