The rhetoric of advocacy and patronclient identification: Variation on a theme

Author: May, J.M.
Title: The rhetoric of advocacy and patronclient identification: Variation on a theme
Review/Collection: The American Journal of Philology 102, 3
Year edition: 1981
Pages: 308-315
Keywords: Droit - Diritto - Law, Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Histoire - Storia - History, Politique - Politica - Politics
Description: [Abstract] Roman litigants enlisting a patron as rhetorical advocate gained an extraordinary weapon. Hence, Cicero is able to defend his clients not so much by logical proof as by his personal influence supported by the state.
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Author initials: May 1981