Cicero made a multiple bid for literary acclaim with his oratory
and his writings on rhetoric, together with his works on politics,
religion and philosophy. He was both orator and critic and his
efficiency in preserving written versions of his speeches have left
us with an abundance of material for the comparison of theory with
practice. In this book Stephen Usher gives a detailed account of
how Cicero viewed oratory, and what influenced the formation of his
ideal. Cicero himself identifies eight desirable qualities and
refinements that oratory should contain: literary knowledge and
culture, knowledge and understanding of philosophy, knowledge of
law, knowledge of history, wit and humour, emotional appeal,
digression and dilatation. His assessment of both past and his
contemporary orators exposes the intensity of the rivalry which
underlies much of Cicero's rhetorical writing, and adds impetus to
how he measures up to his own criteria. Usher sets each speech in
its historical and forensic context, in chronological order, and
examines to what extent and how successfully Cicero employs these
definitions of great oratory.
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