Cicero, Rhetoric, and Empire by Cew Steel
Cicero manipulated issues relevant to Rome's possession of an empire (provincial extortion, access to citizenship, and the distribution of military commands) in an important group of speeches: the Verrines, de imperio Cn. Pompei, pro Archia, pro Flacco, de provinciis consularibus, and pro Balbo. C.E.W. Steel examines the speeches' rhetorical techniques and aims in detail. Cicero's presentation of empire concentrates on the power wielded by individuals at the expense of wider questions of administrative structures. Thus the problems which arise in the running of an empire can be presented as the result of personal failings rather than endemic to the structures of government - as questions of morality rather than of administration. Steel argues that this concept is fundamentally flawed. The weakness cannot be explained simply as Cicero's lack of insight, but as an inevitable consequence of the uses to which he puts oratory in his political career: comparison with his contemporaries shows other leading figures producing much more radical approaches to the problems of empire.-
Inventing the Barbarian
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The Roman Army at War 100 BC - AD 200
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Religion and Society in Ancient Thessaly
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Women in Ancient Persia, 559-331 BC
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Between Empires
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The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines
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Consentius' De barbarismis et metaplasmis
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Epicurus’ Human Beings
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Revenge in Seneca's Tragedies
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Exemplarity and Allusion in Macrobius' Saturnalia
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Roman Priests from Republic to Empire
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Emperor Worship and Roman Religion
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Singing for the Gods
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Agathokles of Syracuse
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Pseudo-Arcadius' Epitome of Herodian's De Prosodia Catholica
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Divine Talk
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Exemplary Epic
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Historiography at the End of the Republic
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Pindar and the Cult of Heroes
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The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite
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Child Emperor Rule in the Late Roman West, AD 367-455
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Plutarch Against Colotes
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Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity
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Episcopal Elections 250-600
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The Stoics on Lekta
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The Chorus of Drama in the Fourth Century BCE
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Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity
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Roman Republican Augury
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Pindar and the Poetics of Permanence
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Reading Quintilian
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Powers of Expression, Expressions of Power
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Sievers' Law and the History of Semivowel Syllabicity in Indo-European and Ancient Greek
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Alcibiades and Athens
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Guilt by Descent
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Lucan: Spectacle and Engagement
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Canons of Style in the Antonine Age
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Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, and Christianity, 100 BC to AD 200
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Plato's Symposium
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Callimachus' Book of Iambi
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Stasis and Stability
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Experiencing Pain in Imperial Greek Culture
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Cicero's Role Models
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Jerome, Vita Malchi
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Kings and Usurpers in the Seleukid Empire
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Thucydides: Narrative and Explanation
Her book does, indeed, help us take Cicero's oratory more seriously as negotiations of pressing public issues of the day * Robert W Cape, The Classical Review *
[Steel] must be praised for teasing so many suggestive and nuanced ideas from her evidenceEven those who disagree will be stimulated in the disagreeing, and a wide range of classicists and political historians will want to have a look at this delightful and engaging book. * Journal of Roman Studies *
... an enterprising book on an important topic ... Skilfully weaving historical, rhetorical, and political concerns, Steel handles a wide range of evidence with imagination and acumen. * Journal of Roman Studies *
[Steel] must be praised for teasing so many suggestive and nuanced ideas from her evidenceEven those who disagree will be stimulated in the disagreeing, and a wide range of classicists and political historians will want to have a look at this delightful and engaging book. * Journal of Roman Studies *
... an enterprising book on an important topic ... Skilfully weaving historical, rhetorical, and political concerns, Steel handles a wide range of evidence with imagination and acumen. * Journal of Roman Studies *
C.E.W. Steel is Lecturer in Classics, University of Glasgow
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199248476 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199248478 |
| Title | Cicero, Rhetoric, and Empire |
| Author | Cew Steel |
| Series | Oxford Classical Monographs |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2002-03-07 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
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