Du discours à l'épistolaire

Les échos du Pro Plancio dans la lettre de Cicéron à Lentulus Spinther (Fam. I, 9)

Bibliographic Data

ID9312990
AuthorsJacques‐Emmanuel Bernard (Université de Toulon, corresponding author), Jacques-Emmanuel Bernard (Université du Sud Toulon-Var, UFR de Lettres et Sciences Humaines, BP 20132, 83957 La Garde Cedex, [email protected])
Year2007
Volume25
Issue3
Pages223-242
Publication date2007-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueRhetorica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0734-8584 • E-ISSN: 1533-8541
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/rh.2007.25.3.223
OpenAlexW2123057195
LanguageFR
Citations received22

After the conference at Luca in 56 BC, where Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey renewed their Triumvirate, Cicero was forced to accept a compromise, which appears in the orations that he delivered to defend both the Triumvirs (De prouinciis consularibus) and his own enemies (defence of Vatinius and Gabinius). In a letter to Lentulus Spinther of December 54, Cicero justified his new political attitude toward the popular leaders. Designed as a plea, this letter, one of Cicero's longest, raises the question: “What similarity is there between a letter and a speech in court or at a public meeting?” (Fam.IX, 21, 1). Relying on the intertextuality of the letter to Lentulus with the oration Pro Plancio, delivered four months previously, this paper considers how Cicero adapts appropriateness and decorum to his addressee and displays a rhetoric that is half way between judicial eloquence and epistolary discourse

Art · Cicero · Compromise · Humanities · Intertextuality · Literature · Plea · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Theology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Studies and Legal History · Law · Philosophy

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