Author: Riggsby, Andrew M.
Title: Pliny on Cicero and oratory: self-fashioning in the public eye
Review/Collection: "American Journal of Philology", 116, (1)
Year edition: 1995
Pages: 123-135
Keywords: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics
Description: Pliny's concept of the orator as an engaged public figure, the stylistic consequences of this view, and his aemulatio of Cicero motivated him in Ep. 1, 20, 6-8, in which he is obliquely criticizing Tacitus' Dialogus, to claim without good evidence that Cicero abridged his speeches for publication. [APh]
Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/295505?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Author initials: Riggsby 1995
Title: Pliny on Cicero and oratory: self-fashioning in the public eye
Review/Collection: "American Journal of Philology", 116, (1)
Year edition: 1995
Pages: 123-135
Keywords: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics
Description: Pliny's concept of the orator as an engaged public figure, the stylistic consequences of this view, and his aemulatio of Cicero motivated him in Ep. 1, 20, 6-8, in which he is obliquely criticizing Tacitus' Dialogus, to claim without good evidence that Cicero abridged his speeches for publication. [APh]
Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/295505?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Author initials: Riggsby 1995
