Author: Natali, Carlo
Title: L’immagine di Isocrate nelle opere di Cicerone
Review/Collection: "Rhetorica", III
Year edition: 1985
Pages: 233-243
Keywords: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics, Sources - Fonti - Sources
Description: Cicero cannot be said to do full justice to Isocrates: the prevailing topos is that of the master of rhetorical elegances shut away in his school and estranged from the real struggles, not that of the man of great knowledge and experience, able to advise individuals and kings in practical choices thanks to his superior 'philosophy'. In this reductive transformation to which Cicero subjects Isocrates, the pages in which Isocrates criticises the legal profession and the practice of the courts must have played a role [PhR]
Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/rh.1985.3.4.233?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Author initials: Natali 1985
Title: L’immagine di Isocrate nelle opere di Cicerone
Review/Collection: "Rhetorica", III
Year edition: 1985
Pages: 233-243
Keywords: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics, Sources - Fonti - Sources
Description: Cicero cannot be said to do full justice to Isocrates: the prevailing topos is that of the master of rhetorical elegances shut away in his school and estranged from the real struggles, not that of the man of great knowledge and experience, able to advise individuals and kings in practical choices thanks to his superior 'philosophy'. In this reductive transformation to which Cicero subjects Isocrates, the pages in which Isocrates criticises the legal profession and the practice of the courts must have played a role [PhR]
Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/rh.1985.3.4.233?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Author initials: Natali 1985