• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Ciceronian Invectives: Emotions, Configurations, and Reactions

Ciceronian Invectives: Emotions, Configurations, and Reactions

Hardcover

Series: Emotions in Antiquity, Book 5

Ancient RomeGeneral Political Science

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 3161610350
ISBN13: 9783161610356
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: Feb 21 2025
Pages: 260
Weight: 1.50
Language: English
Political communication in the late Roman Republic was highly coloured by rhetorical repertoires featuring disparagement, shaming, and other related phenomena. One of the most prolific perpetrators of such verbal conduct - known as invective - was the orator and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC). This volume, which gathers the contributions delivered during the conference Ciceronian Invective. Emotions, Reactions, Performance, held at Dresden's Technische Universitat in 2020, takes a fresh look at the practices reflected in and relating to Cicero's tirades. By comprehending invective not only as a mere literary genre, but also as a practice embedded in social and political contexts, the aim is to arrive at a deeper understanding of Ciceronian invective. The emotions that such use of language aroused, its historical and rhetorical configurations, and the reactions of those offended by it or on its receiving end as an audience are all considered.

Also from

Geitner, Philipp

Also in

Ancient Rome