That tyrant, persuasion : how rhetoric shaped the Roman world /

The assassins of Julius Caesar cried out that they had killed a tyrant, and days later their colleagues in the Senate proposed rewards for this act of tyrannicide. The killers and their supporters spoke as if they were following a well-known script. They were. Their education was chiefly in rhetoric...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Lendon, J. E. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2022].
Subjects:	Rome > Social conditions. Rhetoric, Ancient. Education > Rome.