Cicero’s Pro Milone and the ‘Demosthenic’ Style: De optimo genere oratorum

Auteur: La Bua, Giuseppe
Titre: Cicero’s Pro Milone and the ‘Demosthenic’ Style: De optimo genere oratorum
Revue/Collection: "Greece & Rome" 61, 2014
Annèe edition: 2014
Pages: 29-37
Mots-clès: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics, Sources - Fonti - Sources, Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Description: [Abstract] Cicero aimed in De optimo to sketch out a model of the truly eloquent speaker – in ‘Demosthenic’ forms – able to manage all the different types of style. Conscious of the canonicity that his speeches had achieved, he could not let stand the stigma conferred by his inability to deliver a good oration in hostile circumstances
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Sigle auteur: La Bua 2014