Author: Dickey, Eleanor
Title: Me autem nomine appellabat : avoidance of Cicero’s name in his dialogues
Review/Collection: "Classical Quarterly", NS, 47, (2)
Year edition: 1997
Pages: 584-588
Keywords: Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Description: Cicero's dialogue De Finibus depicts three conversations between the author and his friends. In the course of these conversations Cicero depicts himself as addressing his interlocutors directly, using the vocative case, on 45 occasions; the other characters, however, never address Cicero at all. What is the reason for this imbalance?
Works:
Author initials: Dickey 1997
Title: Me autem nomine appellabat : avoidance of Cicero’s name in his dialogues
Review/Collection: "Classical Quarterly", NS, 47, (2)
Year edition: 1997
Pages: 584-588
Keywords: Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Description: Cicero's dialogue De Finibus depicts three conversations between the author and his friends. In the course of these conversations Cicero depicts himself as addressing his interlocutors directly, using the vocative case, on 45 occasions; the other characters, however, never address Cicero at all. What is the reason for this imbalance?
Works:
Author initials: Dickey 1997
