Form and Function in Roman Oratory

by Edited by D. H. Berry , Andrew Erskine

• ISBN13: 9780521768955
• ISBN10: 0521768950
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

In this book Roman oratory is explored from the perspective of form and function. Leading scholars in the field of Latin prose consider not only the speeches of Cicero, Pliny, Apuleius and the later panegyrists, but also those found in Roman philosophical writing, and in the histories of Caesar, Sallust, Livy and Tacitus. In each case, analysis of the interplay of form and function takes us to the heart of the process by which the author's aims are realised. The book also considers the functions of texts within speeches, the functions of not speaking and the representation of oratorical 'form' in Roman sculpture. An original and wide-ranging study, Form and Function in Roman Oratory will appeal to scholars and students with interests in Roman oratory, historiography, philosophy and art.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. vii
List of contributors	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
List of abbreviations	p. xiv
Form and function	p. 1
The Orator and his Setting	p. 19
Court Procedure and rhetorical strategy in Cicero	p. 21
Tribunician sacrosanctity and oratorical performance in the late republic	p. 37
Togate statues and petrified orators	p. 51
Rhetorical Strategies	p. 73
Means and ends of indignatio in Cicero's Pro Roscio Amerino	p. 75
Form as global strategy in Cicero's Second Catilinarian	p. 92
The form and function of narrative in Panegyric	p. 105
Unending praise: Pliny and ending panegyric	p. 122
Texts in Speeches	p. 137
The function of a divinely inspired text in Cicero's De haruspicum responsis	p. 139
Debate at a distance: a unique rhetorical strategy in Cicero's Thirteenth Philippic	p. 155
The function of verse quotations in Apuleius' speeches: making the case with Plato	p. 175
Speeches in Philosophy	p. 193
Teaching philosophy, a form or function of Roman oratory: Velleius' speech in Cicero's De natura deorum	p. 195
Form and function of speech in the prose works of the younger Seneca	p. 208
Speeches in Historiography	p. 225
Catiline's speeches in Sallust's Bellum Catilinae	p. 227
Speech and silence in Caesar's Bellum Gallicum	p. 247
Rhetorical history: the struggle of the orders in Livy	p. 264
Oratory in Tacitus' Annals	p. 281
Aliena facundia: Seneca in Tacitus	p. 294
Bibliography	p. 309
General index	p. 329
Index locorum	p. 337
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