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  title info:
    title: Creative eloquence
    sub title: the construction of reality in Cicero's speeches
  name:
    name part: Gildenhard, Ingo
    name part: 1970-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: ©2011
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (vii, 454 pages)
  abstract: "In this ... study of Cicero's orations, Ingo Gildenhard argues that a distinctive hallmark of his oratory is a conceptual creativity that one may loosely characterize as philosophical. It manifests itself in striking and original views on human beings and being human, politics, society and culture, and the sphere of the supernatural. After an introduction addressing questions of method, Gildenhard focuses, in turn, upon the anthropology, the sociology, and the theology contained within Cicero's oratory. Each of these parts begins with a substantial introduction that situates Cicero's thought within its wider historical and intellectual context, not least by identifying where and how he departed from established habits of thought in the late-republican field of power. The nature of the argument involves close analysis of key terms or concepts such as conscientia, fatum, humanitas, natura, and tyrannus, as well as attention to larger figures of thought such as agency and accountability, the ethics of happiness, laws vs. justice, the enemy within, civilization vs. Barbarity, the problem of theodicy, and life after death. Examples are drawn from the entire corpus of Ciceronian oratory, from the pro Quinctio to the Philippics, with in-depth analysis of a representative cross-section of particularly relevant speeches. Overall, Creative eloquence offers a fundamental reappraisal of a canonical body of texts, while also touching upon many issues in rhetoric and philosophy that still preoccupy us today"
  table of contents: Introduction : Cicero's philosophical oratory -- Anthropology. Introduction : Ethopoiea and anthropopoiesis ; Being human ; Human beings ; The good, the bad, and the in-between ; Mental states -- Sociology. Introduction : imagining community. Definition and the politics of truth ; Laws and justice ; Civilization and its discontents ; Coping with Caesar -- Theology. Introduction : Rome's civic religion. Ontological elevation and divine favouritism ; Cicero's theodicy ; Tyranny and the divine ; Life after death ; Conclusion.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Ingo Gildenhard.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
  classification: PA6279 .G55 2011eb
  classification: 875.01
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Oxford scholarship online
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Oxford scholarship online
      part name: Classical Studies module
  identifier: 9780191594885
  identifier: 0191594881
  identifier: 9780199291557
  identifier: 0199291551
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 110107
    record change date: 20260318184523.7
    record identifier: in00005706120
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng