Making a New Man Ciceronian Self-Fashioning in the Rhetorical Works

by Dugan, John

• ISBN13: 9780199267804
• ISBN10: 0199267804
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-12
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In Making a New Man John Dugan investigates how Cicero (106-43 BCE) uses his major treatises on rhetorical theory (De oratore, Brutus, and Orator) in order to construct himself as a new entity within Roman cultural life: a leader who based his authority upon intellectual, oratorical, and literary accomplishments instead of the traditional avenues for prestige such as a distinguished familial pedigree or political or military feats. Eschewing conventional Roman notions of manliness, Cicero constructed a distinctly aesthetized identity that flirts with the questionable domains of the theatre and the feminine, and thus fashioned himself as a "new man."

Author Biography

John Dugan is Assistant Professor in the Classics Department, State University of New York at Buffalo.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(14)
Scope and Methodology	15	(6)
Epideixis, Textuality, and Self-Fashioning in the Pro Archia and In Pisonem	21	(54)
The Archaeology of Epideictic and Roman Cultural Anxieties	24	(7)
The Pro Archia as Epideictic Oration: the Construction of a Self	31	(9)
The Pro Archia as Pre-Mortem Laudatio Funebris	40	(3)
The Corruptibility of the Written Word and the Failure of the Pro Archia	43	(4)
The Letter to Lucceius, Ornatus, and the Fight for Textual Fixity	47	(8)
The In Pisonem and Pro Archia	55	(3)
Piso as False Consul, an Anti-Cicero	58	(8)
Conclusion: The Power and Limitations of Literary Ingenium	66	(9)
Fashioning the Ideal Orator: Theatricality and Transgressive Aesthetics in the De oratore	75	(97)
`Writing' the Ideal Orator	81	(23)
Julius Caesar Strabo and Cicero's Self-Fashioning through Transgressive Aesthetics	104	(43)
Body and Style: Putting the Ideal Orator Together	147	(22)
Conclusion: Hortensius?	169	(3)
The Brutus: Cicero's `Rhetorical' History	172	(79)
Caesarian Intertexts	177	(12)
History, Irony, and Autobiography in the Brutus	189	(44)
Varieties of Virtus: Brutus in the Brutus	233	(15)
Conclusion: Ambiguous Teleologies	248	(3)
The Orator: Fashioning a Ciceronian Sublime	251	(82)
The Orator's Intellectual, Personal, and Political Contexts	253	(14)
Style and the Self, Text and the Body	267	(22)
Making Your Mark: Written Ingenium in the Brutus and Orator	289	(26)
Conclusion: Cicero and Demosthenes in `Longinus': The Ciceronian Sublime	315	(18)
Afterword	333	(17)
References	350	(17)
Index of Ancient Sources	367	(16)
General Index	383