Author: Dalsasso, Paola
Title: Accusatio nugatoria e accusator ridiculus: allusioni al mimo nella Pro Roscio Amerino di Cicerone?
Review/Collection: “Pan. Rivista di filologia latina” n.s. 11
Year edition: 2022
Pages: 11*20
Keywords: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics
Description: According to a strategy that will also be operative in subsequent speeches, Cicero in the Pro Roscio Amerino attributes to the opponent the organization of an intrigue against his defender, planned with a division of roles among those involved. And to unmask this scheme, the speaker uses a metaphorical language that refers to theatrical conventions, with the intention of negatively connoting in term of deceptive fiction the role played by the enemies of Sextus Roscius, protected by the powerful freedman of Sulla, Crysogonus. My aim is to demonstrate that Cicero’s strategy of devaluing the opponent exploits the equation between the inconsistency of the accusation and the rambling nature of the theatrical nugae. We would therefore identify here, in the first Ciceronian oratory, a precedent of that rhetorical strategy which will then be fully implemented in the Pro Caelio, where the improbability and absurdity of Clodia’s accusations will be explicitly compared by the speaker to the rambling development of a mime, with reference to known aspects of his stage performance. [Author]
Works:
Link: https://www.unipa.it/dipartimenti/cultureesocieta/riviste/pan/.content/documenti/02---Paola-Dalsasso---PAN-11-2022.pdf
Author initials: Dalsasso 2022
Title: Accusatio nugatoria e accusator ridiculus: allusioni al mimo nella Pro Roscio Amerino di Cicerone?
Review/Collection: “Pan. Rivista di filologia latina” n.s. 11
Year edition: 2022
Pages: 11*20
Keywords: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics
Description: According to a strategy that will also be operative in subsequent speeches, Cicero in the Pro Roscio Amerino attributes to the opponent the organization of an intrigue against his defender, planned with a division of roles among those involved. And to unmask this scheme, the speaker uses a metaphorical language that refers to theatrical conventions, with the intention of negatively connoting in term of deceptive fiction the role played by the enemies of Sextus Roscius, protected by the powerful freedman of Sulla, Crysogonus. My aim is to demonstrate that Cicero’s strategy of devaluing the opponent exploits the equation between the inconsistency of the accusation and the rambling nature of the theatrical nugae. We would therefore identify here, in the first Ciceronian oratory, a precedent of that rhetorical strategy which will then be fully implemented in the Pro Caelio, where the improbability and absurdity of Clodia’s accusations will be explicitly compared by the speaker to the rambling development of a mime, with reference to known aspects of his stage performance. [Author]
Works:
Link: https://www.unipa.it/dipartimenti/cultureesocieta/riviste/pan/.content/documenti/02---Paola-Dalsasso---PAN-11-2022.pdf
Author initials: Dalsasso 2022
