LEADER 03861nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910463178503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-15808-2 010 $a1-4008-2794-9 010 $a9786612158087 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400827947 035 $a(CKB)2670000000491271 035 $a(EBL)457769 035 $a(OCoLC)437429651 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000250850 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11219654 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000250850 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10244705 035 $a(PQKB)11392957 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457769 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36252 035 $a(DE-B1597)446914 035 $a(OCoLC)979592497 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400827947 035 $a(PPN)199244448$9sudoc 035 $a(PPN)187951969 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL457769 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10312529 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL215808 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000491271 100 $a20070302d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe state of speech$b[electronic resource] $erhetoric and political thought in Ancient Rome /$fJoy Connolly 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (321 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-12364-0 311 $a0-691-16225-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [275-293]) and index. 327 $aRhetoric and political thought -- Founding the state of speech -- Naturalized citizens -- The body politic -- The aesthetics of virtue -- Republican theater -- Imperial reenactments -- The Ciceronian citizen in a global world. 330 $aRhetorical theory, the core of Roman education, taught rules of public speaking that are still influential today. But Roman rhetoric has long been regarded as having little important to say about political ideas. The State of Speech presents a forceful challenge to this view. The first book to read Roman rhetorical writing as a mode of political thought, it focuses on Rome's greatest practitioner and theorist of public speech, Cicero. Through new readings of his dialogues and treatises, Joy Connolly shows how Cicero's treatment of the Greek rhetorical tradition's central questions is shaped by his ideal of the republic and the citizen. Rhetoric, Connolly argues, sheds new light on Cicero's deepest political preoccupations: the formation of individual and communal identity, the communicative role of the body, and the "unmanly" aspects of politics, especially civility and compromise. Transcending traditional lines between rhetorical and political theory, The State of Speech is a major contribution to the current debate over the role of public speech in Roman politics. Instead of a conventional, top-down model of power, it sketches a dynamic model of authority and consent enacted through oratorical performance and examines how oratory modeled an ethics of citizenship for the masses as well as the elite. It explains how imperial Roman rhetoricians reshaped Cicero's ideal republican citizen to meet the new political conditions of autocracy, and defends Ciceronian thought as a resource for contemporary democracy. 606 $aRhetoric, Ancient 606 $aPolitical science$xPhilosophy 607 $aRome$xPolitics and government$y265-30 B.C 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aRhetoric, Ancient. 615 0$aPolitical science$xPhilosophy. 676 $a808.00937 686 $a18.46$2bcl 700 $aConnolly$b Joy$f1970-$01055132 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463178503321 996 $aThe state of speech$92488294 997 $aUNINA