Author: May, James M.
Title: Deorum beneficio rei publicae procreatus: Cicero’s Panegyrical Portrait of Octavianusm
Review/Collection: "The Classical Journal", 115, 3-4
Editor: CAMWS
Year edition: 2020
Pages: 261-275
Keywords: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Histoire - Storia - History, Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Description: [May, James M.] [Abstract] Cicero’s persuasive goal in his Philippics was to rouse the senate and people of Rome to resist Marcus Antonius in hopes of restoring the libertas populi Romani and some semblance of the Republic as he envisioned it. As is the case in all of Cicero’s oratory, the presentation of character plays a crucial role in the persuasive process. The orator’s portrait of young Caesar Octavianus, crucial to his strategy, is rooted in elements of laudatory oratory, borrowed largely from his earlier panegyrical depictions of Pompeius Magnus and Julius Caesar. This portrait of praise, drawn throughout the Philippics, proved not only persuasive to the senate, but also influential on Octavianus himself, who later as Augustus employed several of its elements when recounting his own accomplishments.
Works:
Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5184/classicalj.115.3-4.0261?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=%28Cicero%29+AND+disc%3A%28classicalstudies-discipline+OR+literature-discipline%29&searchUri=%2F
Author initials: May 2020
Title: Deorum beneficio rei publicae procreatus: Cicero’s Panegyrical Portrait of Octavianusm
Review/Collection: "The Classical Journal", 115, 3-4
Editor: CAMWS
Year edition: 2020
Pages: 261-275
Keywords: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Histoire - Storia - History, Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Description: [May, James M.] [Abstract] Cicero’s persuasive goal in his Philippics was to rouse the senate and people of Rome to resist Marcus Antonius in hopes of restoring the libertas populi Romani and some semblance of the Republic as he envisioned it. As is the case in all of Cicero’s oratory, the presentation of character plays a crucial role in the persuasive process. The orator’s portrait of young Caesar Octavianus, crucial to his strategy, is rooted in elements of laudatory oratory, borrowed largely from his earlier panegyrical depictions of Pompeius Magnus and Julius Caesar. This portrait of praise, drawn throughout the Philippics, proved not only persuasive to the senate, but also influential on Octavianus himself, who later as Augustus employed several of its elements when recounting his own accomplishments.
Works:
Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5184/classicalj.115.3-4.0261?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=%28Cicero%29+AND+disc%3A%28classicalstudies-discipline+OR+literature-discipline%29&searchUri=%2F
Author initials: May 2020
