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基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2004.
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A collection of contributions by prominent Ciceronian scholars on Cicero's forensic speeches as examples of advocacy designed to secure a verdict, setting the speeches in the context of the Roman court system and of ancient rhetoric, discussing the nature of advocacy ancient and modern, analysing Cicero's various techniques of persuasion, and examining a number of speeches in detail as case studies.
Contents
Introduction ; I. THEMES ; 1. Legal Procedure in Cicero's Time ; 2. Self-Reference in Cicero's Forensic Speeches ; 3. A Volscian Mafia? Cicero and his Italian Clients in the Forensic Speeches ; 4. Allusion in Cicero's Narratives ; 5. Cicero and the Law ; 6. The Rhetoric of Character in the Roman Courts ; 7. Audience Expectations, Invective, and Proof ; 8. Cicero's Perorations ; II. CASE STUDIES ; 9. Being Economical with the Truth: What Really Happened at Lampsacus (Verrines II 1) ; 10. Repetition and Structure in a Civil Law Speech: The Pro Caecina ; 11. The Advocate as a Professional: The Role of the Patronus in Cicero's Pro Cluentio ; 12. Literature and Persuasion in Pro Archia ; 13. De Domo sua: Legal Problem and Structure ; 14. The Dilemma of Cicero's Speech for Ligarius ; EPILOGUE ; 15. Cicero and the Modern Advocate