Author: Blom, Henriette van der
Title: Quintilian on Cicero’s Deliberative Oratory”
Review/Collection: In : Berno, Francesca Romana & La Bua, Giuseppe [Edd.], Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and Politics. From Ancient to Modern Times, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2022, 483 p. [Berno & La Bua 2022]
Place edition: Berlin
Editor: De Gruyter
Year edition: 2022
Pages: 247-266
Keywords: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics
Description: Henriette van der Blom is specifically centered on Quintilian and his presentation of deliberative speeches. By re-examining Quintilian’s discussion of deliberative oratory (3.8) and observing how and at what extent changes in deliberative speeches and contiones mirrored new power dynamics in the Imperial age, this paper argues that Quintilian’s use of Cicero as a primary source for understanding Republican and Imperial deliberative oratory sets out rhetorical theory and oratory in historical perspective, serving as well the purpose to train contemporary would-be orators under a monarchical regime. For Quintilian, Cicero’s speeches in the Senate and contiones illustrate the true nature of great oratory and represent a perfect example of how the vir bonus dicendi peritus displays his oratorical qualities in debate speeches at best. In portraying a multi-faceted Cicero, deeply influenced by Cicero’s self-presentation and later reworkings of the Republican orator, and stressing the importance of deliberative speeches for Republican and contemporary society, Quintilian advocates the ideal of good oratory and instructs his pupils in building their careers as orators on Cicero, the undisputed champion of deliberative oratory. [Berno & La Bua 2022, xviii]
Link: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110748703-015/pdf
Author initials: Blom 2022
Title: Quintilian on Cicero’s Deliberative Oratory”
Review/Collection: In : Berno, Francesca Romana & La Bua, Giuseppe [Edd.], Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and Politics. From Ancient to Modern Times, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2022, 483 p. [Berno & La Bua 2022]
Place edition: Berlin
Editor: De Gruyter
Year edition: 2022
Pages: 247-266
Keywords: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics
Description: Henriette van der Blom is specifically centered on Quintilian and his presentation of deliberative speeches. By re-examining Quintilian’s discussion of deliberative oratory (3.8) and observing how and at what extent changes in deliberative speeches and contiones mirrored new power dynamics in the Imperial age, this paper argues that Quintilian’s use of Cicero as a primary source for understanding Republican and Imperial deliberative oratory sets out rhetorical theory and oratory in historical perspective, serving as well the purpose to train contemporary would-be orators under a monarchical regime. For Quintilian, Cicero’s speeches in the Senate and contiones illustrate the true nature of great oratory and represent a perfect example of how the vir bonus dicendi peritus displays his oratorical qualities in debate speeches at best. In portraying a multi-faceted Cicero, deeply influenced by Cicero’s self-presentation and later reworkings of the Republican orator, and stressing the importance of deliberative speeches for Republican and contemporary society, Quintilian advocates the ideal of good oratory and instructs his pupils in building their careers as orators on Cicero, the undisputed champion of deliberative oratory. [Berno & La Bua 2022, xviii]
Link: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110748703-015/pdf
Author initials: Blom 2022
