Me autem nomine appellabat : avoidance of Cicero’s name in his dialogues

Autore: Dickey, Eleanor
Titolo: Me autem nomine appellabat : avoidance of Cicero’s name in his dialogues
Rivista/Miscellanea: "Classical Quarterly", NS, 47, (2)
Anno edizione: 1997
Pagine: 584-588
Parole chiave: Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Descrizione: 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?
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Sigla autore: Dickey 1997