Cicero on the Attack: Invective and Subversion in the Orations and Beyond

By: Joan Booth

Eight new essays, from a distinguished international cast, examine the techniques of Cicero's verbal aggression. Analysis includes political and forensic context but also Cicero's own formal theory of rhetoric and his debts to other genres, literary and dramatic.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1905125194
• ISBN13: 9781905125197
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"