Cicero rhetor; Die Partitiones oratoriae und das Konzept des gelehrten Politikers

Author: Arweiler, Alexander
Title: Cicero rhetor; Die Partitiones oratoriae und das Konzept des gelehrten Politikers
Review/Collection: Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte 68v
Place edition: Berlin - New York
Editor: de Gruyter
Year edition: 2003
Pages: 339
Keywords: Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics
Review:

Yelena Baraz in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005 – C. Steel, Rhetorical Review 4:3 (October 2006) : http://www.nnrh.dk/RR/rr-pdf/43.5-7.pdf – – Loutsch, "Gnomon", 2006, 78, (8), 687-692

Description: [Abstract] This fundamentally new interpretation of the Partitiones oratoriae shows the small dialogue to be a demanding compendium of the whole system of rhetorical doctrine and places it at the centre of a specifically Ciceronian concept of rhetoric. By drawing upon Cicero’s other philosophical and rhetorical works, the author reveals the political relevance: Cicero’s learned writings present criteria for the selection of suitable politicians, to whom powers of decision-making should only be given after they have proved themselves to have studied and to possess methodical abilities. Thus Cicero’s work as a writer after his exile cannot sensibly be separated from his political activity.
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Author initials: Arweiler 2003