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Ethics, Identity, and Community in Later Roman Declamation (Hardcover)
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Ethics, Identity, and Community in Later Roman Declamation (Hardcover)
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Rhetorical training was the central component of an elite Roman
man's education, and declamations--imaginary courtroom speeches in
the character of a fictional or historical individual--were the
most advanced exercises in the standard rhetorical curriculum. The
Major Declamations is a collection of nineteen full-length Latin
speeches attributed in antiquity to Quintilian but most likely
composed by a group of authors in the second and third centuries
CE. Though there has been a recent revival of interest in
Greco-Roman declamation, the Major Declamations has generally been
neglected.
Ethics, Identity, and Community in Later Roman Declamation is the
first book devoted exclusively to the Major Declamations and its
reception in later European literature. It argues that the
fictional scenarios of the Major Declamations enable the conceptual
exploration of a variety of ethical and social issues. Chapters
explore these cultural matters, covering, in turn, the construction
of authority, the verification of claims, the conventions of
reciprocity, and the ethics of spectatorship. The book closes with
a study of the reception of the collection by the Renaissance
humanist Juan Luis Vives and the eighteenth-century scholar Lorenzo
Patarol, followed by a brief postscript that deftly surveys the use
of declamatory exercises in the contemporary university. This
much-needed and engaging study will rescue the Major Declamations
from generations of neglect, while critically informing current
work in rhetorical studies.
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