Representations : images of the world in Ciceronian oratory / Ann Vasaly.

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Vasaly, Ann

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California Digital Library. eScholarship

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780520916715
0520916719
0585153752
9780585153759
9780520077553
0520077555

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Representations.DDC classification:

875/.01 20

LOC classification:

PA6285 .V37 1993eb

Other classification:

18.46
6,11
6,12
FX 152005
FX 152905
NH 3643

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Contents:

Ambiance, rhetoric and the meaning of things -- Transforming the visible: in Catilinam 1 and 3 -- Signa and signifiers: a world created -- Ethos and Locus: ancient perspectives -- Place and commonplace: country and city -- Ethnic personae.

Summary: Ann Vasaly introduces representation theory into the study of Ciceronian persuasion and contends that an understanding of milieu--social, political, topographical--is crucial to understanding Ciceronian oratory. As a genre uniquely dependent on an immediate interaction between author and audience, ancient oratory becomes performance art. Vasaly investigates the way Cicero represented the contemporary physical world--places, topography, and monuments, both those seen and those merely mentioned--to his listeners and demonstrates how he used these representations to persuade. Her exceptionally well-written study deftly recaptures the immediacy of Cicero's oratory and makes a trenchant contribution to an important new area of inquiry in Classical Studies.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-276) and indexes.

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Ann Vasaly introduces representation theory into the study of Ciceronian persuasion and contends that an understanding of milieu--social, political, topographical--is crucial to understanding Ciceronian oratory. As a genre uniquely dependent on an immediate interaction between author and audience, ancient oratory becomes performance art. Vasaly investigates the way Cicero represented the contemporary physical world--places, topography, and monuments, both those seen and those merely mentioned--to his listeners and demonstrates how he used these representations to persuade. Her exceptionally well-written study deftly recaptures the immediacy of Cicero's oratory and makes a trenchant contribution to an important new area of inquiry in Classical Studies.

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