Hasil untuk "Oratory. Elocution, etc."

Fiona Rossette-Crake

Laura Loporcaro

Abstract Chapter 4 analyses Quintilian’s polemic against what he presents as contemporary stylistic corruption, and his reception of Seneca the Younger. First, it discusses how Quintilian consistently pitches his conception of good style against the two currents of ‘archaism’ and ‘modernism’, presenting the latter as more widespread and threatening to his educational project. This chapter contends that he borrows the vocabulary of effeminacy from Seneca to describe modernism and that his stylistic polemic is a prominent case of apotreptic exemplarity, a didactic strategy he recommends to teachers. Second, it argues that Quintilian presents Seneca as a bad stylist, teacher, and literary critic and as a fountainhead of modernism, and that he links him to Nero and his matricide. By linking modernism to Seneca, this chapter suggests, Quintilian presents this contemporary current of stylistic corruption as an anachronistic remnant of the Neronian past, which must be obliterated by his ‘Flavian’ educational project.

Ruth Webb

Ted Parker

Elena Torregaray Pagola

AbstractThis chapter uses a scene in Plautus’ Amphitruo to reconstruct contemporary Roman oratorical practice in the context of the diplomacy of intervention, offering a close reading of a monologue by the slave Sosia (Amph. 186–218). In this extract Sosia describes the composition of a ‘victory speech’ for his master’s wife and, within the speech, recounts the diplomatic activity that preceded the war. Traces of the fetiales formula in the latter can be contextualized in terms of a rhetoric of intimidation, used to establish Roman supremacy even before the outbreak of war. The monologue itself, in depicting Sosia’s doubts and concerns while composing his speech, sheds light on the disposition of speakers in tense situations.

Anna Clark

Sophia Papaioannou, Andreas Serafim, Beatrice da Vela

Konstantinos Kapparis, Ilias Arnaoutoglou, Dimos Spatharas

Juan Luis González García

Kate Nesbit

Andrea Balbo

Edward J. Filbey

E.R. Macomber (Firm), E.R. Macomber, Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection.

Norman Rubin

E.R. Macomber (Firm), E.R. Macomber, Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection.