商品簡介
Classicists, most from the US, offer a guide to the oratory and rhetoric of Roman writer Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC). They hope to provide neophytes a starting point, veterans a place to renew old and new dialogues, and generally a site of engagement at various levels with Ciceronian scholarship and bibliography. The 17 studies are basically arranged chronologically, though some address particular themes. The topics include Cicero's life and career, his early speeches, his invective, the lost and fragmentary orations, the intellectual background of his rhetorical works, Orator and the definition of the ideal orator, and selected recent work on his rhetoric and speeches. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
James M. May is Professor of Classics at St. Olaf College. He has published extensively on Ciceronian oratory and rhetoric, including Trials of Character: The Eloquence of Ciceronian Ethos (North Carolina, 1988) and (with Jakob Wisse) Cicero: On the Ideal Orator (Oxford, 2001).
