Platonic elements in the structure of Cicero De oratore Book I

Author: Schüetrumpf, Eckart
Title: Platonic elements in the structure of Cicero De oratore Book I
Review/Collection: "Rhetorica: a journal of the history of rhetoric", 6
Place edition: Berkeley
Editor: University of California Press
Year edition: 1988
Pages: 237-258
Keywords: Droit - Diritto - Law, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics, Sources - Fonti - Sources
Description: [APh] [Comment] At the beginning of De oratore, Cicero takes up the main themes of the first part of Plato's Gorgias: an encomium of the power of eloquence is followed by a critical examination of the scope of oratory. Plato's question, whether the orator needs a knowledge of justice, appears in the Ciceronian dialogue in the controversy about the orator's knowledge of the ius civile.
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Link: https://doi-org.bibliopass.unito.it/10.1525/rh.1988.6.3.237
Author initials: Schüetrumpf 1988