Search for dissertations about: "invective"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the word invective.

  2. 1. Making Enemies : The Logic of Immorality in Ciceronian Oratory

    Author : Isak Hammar; Historia; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ancient Rome; late Republic; political culture; Cicero; oratory; immorality; cultural logic; rhetoric; cultural history; invective;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the role played by the topic of immorality in the extant speeches of the Roman politician Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE)and subsequently in the Roman political culture of the late Republic. It traces the portraits of immorality that Cicero made of his political and forensic enemies throughout his political career and his use of immorality as an argument in the Roman Senate, public assembly, and the courts. READ MORE