Author: Burnand, Christopher
Title: The Advocate as a Professional: The Role of the Patronus in Cicero’s Pro Cluentio
Review/Collection: in : Cicero the Advocate, Powell & Paterson, 2006
Place edition: Oxford
Editor: Oxford University Press
Year edition: 2004
Pages: 277-289
Keywords: Droit - Diritto - Law, Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence
Review:
Works:
Author initials: Burnand, 2004
Title: The Advocate as a Professional: The Role of the Patronus in Cicero’s Pro Cluentio
Review/Collection: in : Cicero the Advocate, Powell & Paterson, 2006
Place edition: Oxford
Editor: Oxford University Press
Year edition: 2004
Pages: 277-289
Keywords: Droit - Diritto - Law, Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence
Review:
Corbeill, “American Journal of Philology”, 2006, 127, (1), 144-149 – May, “Classical Review”, 2006, NS, 56, (1), 98-100
Description: In his defence of Cluentius in 66 BC, Cicero depicts his role as an advocate. The advocate is presented as a semi-professional pleader who employs only his rhetorical skill in order to win his client's case. This chapter focuses on the image of the advocate as a professional, as painted by Cicero in his defence of Cluentius, and argues that Cicero could exploit the fact that, as an advocate who appeared regularly in the Roman courts, he was able to advertise his faithful loyalty to the practice of the Roman law, and hence to legal government. The traditional view of advocacy as a branch of patronage is first reviewed, with particular reference to the Pro Caelio. [Author] [Powell & Paterson 2004]Works:
Author initials: Burnand, 2004
