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Administrative Slavery in the Ancient Roman Republic

The Value of Marcus Tullius Tiro in Ciceronian Rhetoric

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ID9307269
AuthorsZach Bankston (University of Nevada, Reno, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume31
Issue3
Pages203-218
Publication date2012-06-08
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueRhetoric Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0735-0198 • E-ISSN: 1532-7981
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07350198.2012.683991
OpenAlexW2093156805
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited10

Urban slave life in ancient Rome was unlike the absolute bondage and physical labor historically associated with the term slavery. Cicero's administrative slave Tiro was a literary collaborator, a debt collector, a superintendent of sorts, a secretary, a financial overseer, a political strategist, a recipient and content-generator of Cicero's famed practice of letter-writing, and a connected component of Cicero's social scheming. Cicero's correspondence with Tiro praises him for his value and loyalty, but it also shows previously unrevealed rhetorical aspects of the ancient orator and his relationship with his slave, colleague, and friend

Art · Cicero · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Value (mathematics · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · History · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy

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Citation span2022 - 2025 (4)
Highly citedNo

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