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Book SynopsisA collection of contributions by prominent Ciceronian scholars on Cicero''s forensic speeches as examples of advocacy designed to secure a verdict, setting the speeches in the context of the Roman court system and of ancient rhetoric, discussing the nature of advocacy ancient and modern, analysing Cicero''s various techniques of persuasion, and examining a number of speeches in detail as case studies.
Trade ReviewReview from previous edition 'Cicero the Advocate - he's back, he's bad, and he's taking names!' Or so the voice-over for the trailer would growl, if this surprisingly feisty volume were a summer blockbuster coming to a movie screen near you . . . Not quite a decade after his collection Cicero the Philosopher helped make 1995 a watershed in the re-evaluation of that portion of the oeuvre, Jonathan Powell has joined with Jeremy Paterson to produce a worthy successor. The standard maintained is uniformly high, and excellence is not uncommon. We can hope that Oxford will provide a paperback version sooner rather than later, at a price teachers and even their students can actually afford. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
Skilled editors and a team of experts offer what is effectively an `Oxford Companion to Cicero's Forensic Speeches' - and a boon companion it is . . . Highly recommended. * Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries *
Table of ContentsIntroduction ; I. THEMES ; 1. Legal Procedure in Cicero's Time ; 2. Self-Reference in Cicero's Forensic Speeches ; 3. A Volscian Mafia? Cicero and his Italian Clients in the Forensic Speeches ; 4. Allusion in Cicero's Narratives ; 5. Cicero and the Law ; 6. The Rhetoric of Character in the Roman Courts ; 7. Audience Expectations, Invective, and Proof ; 8. Cicero's Perorations ; II. CASE STUDIES ; 9. Being Economical with the Truth: What Really Happened at Lampsacus (Verrines II 1) ; 10. Repetition and Structure in a Civil Law Speech: The Pro Caecina ; 11. The Advocate as a Professional: The Role of the Patronus in Cicero's Pro Cluentio ; 12. Literature and Persuasion in Pro Archia ; 13. De Domo sua: Legal Problem and Structure ; 14. The Dilemma of Cicero's Speech for Ligarius ; EPILOGUE ; 15. Cicero and the Modern Advocate
