Making a New Man

Ciceronian self-fashioning in the rhetorical works

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ID9293116
AuthorsJohn Dugan (corresponding author)
Year2005
Pages388
Publication date2005-03-03
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueMaking a new man (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199267804.001.0001
OpenAlexW2503603430
Open LibraryOL3299474M
ISBN9780199267804
LanguageEN
Citations received89

This study investigates how Cicero (106-43 BCE) uses his major treatises on rhetorical theory (De oratore, Brutus, and Orator) in order to construct himself as a new entity within Roman cultural life: a leader who based his authority upon intellectual, oratorical, and literary accomplishments instead of the traditional avenues for prestige such as a distinguished familial pedigree or political or military feats. Eschewing conventional Roman notions of manliness, Cicero constructed a distinctly aesthetized identity that flirts with the questionable domains of the theatre and the feminine, and thus fashioned himself as a 'new man

Aesthetics · Art · Cicero · Construct (python library · Ideal (ethics · Identity (music · Irony · Linguistics · Literature · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Prestige · Reflexive pronoun · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Style (visual arts · Sublime · Textuality · Classical Antiquity Studies · Computer Science · Law · Philosophy · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Ancient Oratory · Ancient Rhetoric · Art oratoire · Cicero, marcus tullius · Didactisch proza · Discours latins · Éloquence antique · Et la rhetorique · History and criticism · Latijn · Marcus Tullius Cicero · Moi (Psychologie) dans la litterature · Orateurs · Orators · Oratory, Ancient · Retorica · Rhetoric, Ancient · Rhétorique ancienne · Rome · Self in literature · Speeches, addresses, etc · Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin · Zelfbeeld · Zelfpresentatie

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