Dissertations / Theses: 'Marcus Tullius De officiis'

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Tolf, James Stephen. "Patterns of imagery in Ciceronian invective /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11474.

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Kirby, John T. "The rhetoric of Cicero's Pro Cluentio." Amsterdam : J.C. Gieben, 1990. http://books.google.com/books?id=uGxfAAAAMAAJ.

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Clausen, Marion. "Maxima in sensibus veritas? : Die platonischen und stoischen Grundlagen der Erkenntniskritik in Ciceros "Lucullus" /." Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] : Lang, 2008. http://d-nb.info/990155625/04.

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Schallenberg, Magnus. "Freiheit und Determinismus ein philosophischer Kommentar zu Ciceros Schrift De fato." Berlin New York, NY de Gruyter, 2004. http://d-nb.info/97780464X/04.

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Druckenmiller, Jenny D. "Cicero's letters and Roman epistolary etiquette /." Connect to online version of this title in UO's Scholars' Bank, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/5995.

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Samotta, Iris. "Das Vorbild der Vergangenheit : Geschichtsbild und Reformvorschläge bei Cicero und Sallust /." Stuttgart : F. Steiner, 2009. http://d-nb.info/99347361X/04.

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Zangari, Marco J. "Cicero fabricator : the ethos of aesthetics in Cicero's Verrines /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11450.

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Sauer, Jochen. "Argumentations- und Darstellungsformen im ersten Buch von Ciceros Schrift De legibus." Heidelberg Winter, 2004. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2893937&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.

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Steck, Ulrike. "Der Zeugenbeweis in den Gerichtsreden Ciceros." Frankfurt, M. Berlin Bern Bruxelles New York, NY Oxford Wien Lang, 2007. http://d-nb.info/993286070/04.

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Saner, Peter. "Von den Iden des März 44 bis zur dritten Philippica Ciceros : (mit einem historischen Kommentar zur dritten Philippica Ciceros) /." Bern : [s.n.], 1988. http://www.ub.unibe.ch/content/bibliotheken_sammlungen/sondersammlungen/dissen_bestellformular/index_ger.html.

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Thorsrud, Harald Christian. "Cicero's academic skepticism /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Steel, C. E. W. "Cicero, rhetoric, and empire." Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. http://www.myilibrary.com?id=44675.

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Originally presented as the author's D. Phil thesis, Corpus Christi College Oxford, 1995-1998.
Title from e-book title screen (viewed July 27, 2006). Available through MyiLibrary. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-245) and index.

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Platschek, Johannes. "Studien zu Ciceros Rede für P. Quinctius /." München : Beck, 2005. http://www.gbv.de/dms/spk/sbb/recht/toc/483310948.pdf.

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Kreter, Fabian. "Kann Fabius bei einer Seeschlacht sterben? die Geschichte der Logik des Kontingenzproblems von Aristoteles, De interpretatione 9 bis Cicero, De fato." Trier Wiss. Verl. Trier, 2005. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2870905&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.

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Clausen, Marion. "Maxima in sensibus veritas? die platonischen und stoischen Grundlagen der Erkenntniskritik in Ciceros "Lucullus"." Frankfurt, M. Berlin Bern Bruxelles New York, NY Oxford Wien Lang, 2007. http://d-nb.info/990155625/04.

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Samotta, Iris. "Das Vorbild der Vergangenheit Geschichtsbild und Reformvorschläge bei Cicero und Sallust." Stuttgart Steiner, 2003. http://d-nb.info/99347361X/04.

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Wilson, Laurie Ann. "From the Roman republic to the American revolution : readings of Cicero in the political thought of James Wilson /." St Andrews, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/911.

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Schneider, Maridien. "Cicero : 'haruspex' vicissitudinum mutationisque rei publicae : a study of Cicero's merit as political analyst." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51653.

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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2000.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study is to explore Marcus Tullius Cicero's awareness and interpretation of contemporary political events as reflected in his private correspondence during the last years of both the Roman republic and his own life. Cicero's correspondence gives a detailed view of current political events in Rome and constitutes, with Caesar's own narrative, our major contemporary evidence for the circumstances of the civil war of 49 BC. The dissertation takes as Leitmotiv Cicero's own judgement of the state as 'sacrificial victim' to the ambitions of individual politicians, with as metaphor his examination of a 'dying' body politic in the manner of a haruspex inspecting the entrails of a sacrificial animal. It poses the question whether Cicero understood the message of political decline signalled by the 'entrails' of the 'carcass' of the res publica, and whether this ability in its turn enabled him to anticipate future political development in Rome. In what follows, the theoretical input of Cicero's predecessors, their perceptions of constitutional development, and of Roman politics in particular, as well as Cicero's own perception of their political theories will be considered in order to determine the extent of Cicero's awareness of a larger pattern of political events, and how consistent he was in his analyses of such patterns, that is, to what extent Cicero may be considered seriously as a political analyst.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die oogmerk van die verhandeling is om vas te stel of Marcus Tullius Cicero met reg daaop kan aanspraak maak dat hy eietydse politieke gebeure sinvol kon interpreteer as die manifestering van 'n nuwe politieke stroming wat die voorkoms van die toekomstige Romeinse politieke toneel sou bepaal. Cicero se waarneming en begrip van eietydse politieke gebeure in die laaste paar jaar van die Romeinse Republiek en sy eie lewe word tekenend weerspieël in sy persoonlike briefwisseling uit die tydperk 51 tot 43 v.C. As historiese dokument bied hierdie korrespondensie, as primêre bronmateriaal, naas die behoue kontemporêre beriggewing van Julius Caesar, die enigste ander kontemporêre getuienis vir die uitbreek en nadraai van die burgeroorlog van 49 v.C. Die sentrale tema van die verhandeling is Cicero se persepsie van die Romeinse staat as die 'slagoffer' van magsugtige politieke rolspelers. Cicero se rol as waarnemer en politieke analis word uitgebeeld deur die metafoor van 'n haruspex (profeet) wat die 'ingewande' van die 'karkas' van die gestorwe Romeinse Republiek ondersoek. Die kernvraag wat gestel word is, of Cicero inderdaad daartoe in staat was om die boodskap van politieke verandering raak te lees, die implikasies daarvan te begryp en daarvolgens 'n beredeneerde toekomsprojeksie van die Romeinse politieke toneel te maak. Om te bepaal of Cicero meriete verdien as 'n politieke analis, word die volgende kriteria as toetsstene gebruik: die teoretiese insette van Cicero se voorgangers en sy beheersing van sodanige politieke teoretisering, die mate waarin hy konsekwent en objektief kon oordeel, en die mate waarin hy teorie en die praktiese werklikheid van die Romeinse politieke situasie kon integreer.

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Fodor, Nóra. "Die griechischen Übersetzungen lateinischer Autoren durch Maximos Planudes." [S.l. : s.n.], 2004. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-87005.

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Temelini, Mark A. "Cicero's concordia : the promotion of a political concept in the late Roman republic." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38422.

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The aim of this dissertation is to explain the meaning of concordia surveying the historical context in which it emerged. The thesis concentrates on the period 63--43 B.C. because it is in this crucial period that the concept achieves its most articulate and influential defence by the Roman orator, statesman, and philosopher, Marcus Tullius Cicero. My intention is to review the important writings and speeches of Cicero and to situate them in the political struggles in which he was implicated.
By placing the concept of concordia in this political context, a clearer picture emerges than is available in the current literature about how Cicero promoted, defended, and skillfully redefined the concept of concordia in order to achieve his political aims. What emerges are three identifiable meanings of the concept of concordia . The first is the longstanding conventional Roman republican idea of concordia as unity, friendship, and agreement. The second is what Cicero called the concordia ordinum, an innovative idea of concordia as a harmony or coalition of the two Roman orders of the senate and equites. The third is the idea of concordia as a consensus omnium bonorum---what Cicero called concordia civium or concordia civitatis . This idea represents an important shift in the thinking of the Roman orator who began to see the survival of the republic as depending on a consensus that went beyond the coalition of the senate and equites.

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Chu, Kenneth Ki Kit. "Monastic friendship in the late twelfth century a critical study of Aelred's De spiritali amicitia /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p048-0348.

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Wilson, Laurie Ann. "From the Roman Republic to the American Revolution : readings of Cicero in the political thought of James Wilson." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/911.

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As a classical scholar and prominent founding father, James Wilson was at once statesman, judge, and political thinker, who read Cicero as an example worthy of emulation and as a philosopher whose theory could be applied to his own age. Classical reception studies have focused on questions of liberty, civic virtue, and constitutionalism in the American founding, and historians have also noted Wilson’s importance in American history and thought. Wilson’s direct engagement with Cicero’s works, however, and their significance in the formulation of his own philosophy has been long overlooked. My thesis argues that Wilson’s viewpoint was largely based on his readings of Cicero and can only be properly understood within this context. In the first two chapters of my thesis I demonstrate that Wilson not only possessed a wide-ranging knowledge of the classics in general, but also that he borrowed from Cicero’s writings and directly engaged with the texts themselves. Building upon this foundation, chapters three and four examine Cicero’s perspective on popular sovereignty and civic virtue, situate Wilson’s interpretations within contemporary discussions of Roman politics, and analyse the main ways in which he adapts Cicero’s arguments to his own era. Wilson retains a broader faith in the common people than seen in Cicero’s opinions, and he abstracts from Cicero a doctrine of sovereignty as an indivisible principle that is absent in the text; nevertheless, Cicero’s conception of a legitimate state and his insistence on the role of the people provided the foundation for Wilson’s thought and ultimately for his legitimization of the American Revolution. At the same time, like Cicero, Wilson views the stability of the state as resting in the personal virtue of the individual. While his enlightenment philosophy imparts optimism to his conception of the good citizen, his definition of virtue closely follows that of Cicero. As the final chapter of my thesis concludes, their individual interpretations of these theories of popular consent and virtue were instrumental in forming Cicero’s and Wilson’s justifications of civil disobedience.

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Cameron, Peter Scott. "Approaching death in the classical tradition /." St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/495.

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Marley, Caitlin A. "Sentiments, networks, literary biography: towards a mesoanalysis of Cicero's Corpus." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6199.

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In a field as old as Classics, it difficult to find truly innovative approaches to literary works that have been studied for millennia, and it only becomes more difficult to find something new to explore in works as fundamental to the field as Marcus Tullius Cicero’s. However, in the burgeoning field of Digital Humanities, new avenues for textual exploration arise even among the over-picked rubble that is the Classical World. Through the use of computer software, we can search through and statistically analyze corpora of massive sizes. This project uses such techniques to perform a mesoanalysis of Cicero’s corpus. Through the use of R and Gephi, I will “read” Cicero’s works from a distance and see a much broader view of his character than I could through a traditional close reading of a few texts. This mesoanalysis includes a stylometric analysis of Cicero’s entire corpus, a sentiment analysis of his orations, and a network analysis of his letters. The sentiment analysis will explore Cicero as a literary figure. Through a hierarchical cluster analysis in R, I will assess not only how his style changes from genre to genre but within a genre (orations) as well. That analysis will close with an exploration of the lexical richness of his works, how it varies from genre to genre and over his lifetime. For the sentiment analysis, I built a lexicon based on Stoic theory, primarily as it is explained in the Tusculunae Disputationes, and Robert Kaster’s work with emotional scripts. After the lexicon was built, I applied it to Cicero’s orations in a method similar to Matthew Jockers’ syuzhet package for R, and I traced his use of sentiment across the speech. I then compared those trajectories to Latin rhetorical theory, especially the theories included in Cicero’s own treatises, in order to see if Cicero had put into effect his own advice or if he had a few techniques that he kept hidden. The mesoanalysis closes with a network analysis of the Epistulae ad Familiares. I merged Cicero’s social network with a sentiment analysis in order to assess how Cicero felt about and interacted with his peers. From this analysis, one could gather an idea of Cicero as a person. At the end of the mesoanalysis, we can attain a much broader sense of Cicero’s character. This project also has a second aim, and that is to explain how these techniques could be applied to other literary corpora, outside of Cicero’s and Latin. I have carefully detailed my process and provide more instruction in my appendices so that readers could attempt these analyses and be successful in them.

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Viccini, André Novo. "Como fazer um orador: tradução e estudo do Orator de Cícero." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8143/tde-17122018-145846/.

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Apresenta-se tradução do Orator de Cícero precedida de estudo. Propõe-se que, quando confrontado com a maledicência dos que se dizem áticos, Cícero remete a controvérsia particular à questão acerca do gênero universal, ou thésis, tratando do gênero para responder às partes e tratando da coisa para responder aos homens. Por tratar-se de coisas, recorre-se em geral à doutrina das coisas, isto é, à filosofia, e em particular a duas de suas artes, a tópica e a dialética. Analisa-se portanto o método dialético e tópico empregado pelo autor para resolver a questão acerca do melhor gênero do discursar. Argumenta-se que Cícero compara as espécies do discurso entre si e define a forma do orador perfeito para exprimir a sua imagem, imagem que servirá de critério para julgar, conforme a maior ou menor semelhança em relação a ela, os oradores que vemos e ouvimos.
I present the reader with a translation into Portuguese of Ciceros Orator with introduction. I propose that, when confronted with the invectives of the so-called Attics, Cicero sends back this controversy to the question about the universal kind, or thésis, speaking about the genus in order to give a response to the parts, and speaking about things to give a response to men. Because Cicero speaks about things, he employs the doctrine of things, i.e. Philosophy, making use of two of its arts, Topics and Dialectics. I analyse therefore the topical and dialectical method the author applies to solve the question about the best kind of speech. I argue that Cicero applies this method to compare the species of speech and to define the form of the perfect orator so that he may express its image, a image that will be used as a criterion to judge, in proportion to their likeness to it, the orators we can see and hear.

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Klodt, Claudia. "Ciceros Rede Pro Rabirio Postumo : Einleitung und Kommentar /." Stuttgart : B.G. Teubner, 1992. http://books.google.com/books?id=AIVfAAAAMAAJ.

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McIntosh, Gillian Elizabeth. "Re-thinking the Roman Domus: how architects and orators construct self, space, and language." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1061239970.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003.
Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 220 p. Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Erik T. Gunderson, Dept. of Greek and Latin. Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-220).

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Mahy, Trevor Bryan. "After the daggers : politics and persuasion after the assassination of Caesar." Thesis, St Andrews, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/928.

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Cameron, Peter. "Approaching death in the classical tradition." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/495.

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The thesis consists of five chapters: the first functions as an overture; the second, third and fourth deal with Plato, Cicero and Montaigne respectively; and the fifth raises some questions. The overture explores the ways in which Odysseus, Lucretius and Seneca approached death, and in the process introduces some obvious distinctions - between death viewed as the act of dying and death viewed as the state of being dead, between the death which comes to everyone and the death which comes to me, between our own death and the death of others - and anticipates certain recurring themes. The second chapter, on Plato, is concerned chiefly with the Phaedo and the question of what is involved in "the practice of death". This entails an examination of related concepts and terminology in the Gorgias and the Republic, and of the whole subject of Platonic myth. The third chapter discusses Cicero's views on death and immortality - both the considered reflections of the philosopher and the spontaneous reactions of the bereaved father - principally as these emerge from the Tusculan Disputations and the letters to Atticus. The fourth chapter approaches Montaigne - his own experiences of death, the relationship between his earlier and later approaches, the tension between his professed Catholicism and his pagan inclinations, the difficulty and perhaps undesirability of extracting a 'message' from the Essais on this or any other subject. The conclusion asks to what extent these various approaches succeed in what they set out to do, and whether any generalised, objective approach to death can ever successfully address the individual predicament, either in relation to one's own death or in facing bereavement.

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Coetzee, Petrus Johannes. "Genera Dicendi en Officia Oratoris by Cicero met besondere verwysing na sy Pro Caecina." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/14384.

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Disler, Caroline A. "Cicero and translation in the summer of 45 BCE : a study of De finibus, Academica posteriora, Tusculanae disputationes /." 2004. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MQ99414.

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Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2004. Graduate Programme in Translation.
Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 228-248). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MQ99414

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Montague, Holly Williams. "Style and strategy in forensic speeches Cicero's Caesarians in perspective /." 1987. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/27419118.html.

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Blouin, Geneviève. "Le philhellénisme de Marcus Tullius Cicéron et de Quintus Tullius Cicéron : réalités, motifs et impacts." Mémoire, 2007. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/728/1/M10101.pdf.

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Ce mémoire tente de faire le point sur les impacts d'une tendance étonnante de la société romaine de l'époque républicaine: le philhellénisme, c'est-à-dire le sentiment favorable manifesté envers les Grecs, pourtant vaincus par Rome, et leur culture. Pour réaliser cet objectif, le terme de philhellène doit d'abord être défini. Ensuite, l'étude d'une source abondante, la Correspondance de Marcus Cicéron, permet une étude de cas pouvant jeter un certain éclairage sur les motivations des philhellènes et leurs impacts sur le monde grec. Le premier chapitre aborde les principaux philhellènes connus. II tente de cerner dans quelle mesure ils ont pu influer sur l'hellénisme en général et les Hellènes en particulier. Le second chapitre étudie les manifestations de philhellénisme de Marcus Tullius Cicéron et en dégage les impacts connus. Le dernier chapitre tente la même démarche au sujet du jeune frère de l'orateur, Quintus. La mise en parallèle des actions des deux frères avec les tendances générales du philhellénisme de leur époque permet finalement de remarquer que Marcus a posé les jalons d'une culture proprement gréco-romaine, profitable tant aux occidentaux qu'aux orientaux, tandis que Quintus a plutôt vogué sur la vague du courant culturel, tout en laissant aux Grecs un souvenir favorable. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Cicéron, Philhellénisme, Hellénisme, Rome, Grèce.

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Billerbeck, Franklin E. "The role of the Four Cardinal Virtues in the Rhetorica ad Herennium and the De Inventione." 1985. http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/18657.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1985.
Typescript. Title from title screen (viewed Sept. 24, 2007). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-82). Online version of the print original.

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Ige, Johnson Olusegun. "The rhetoric of gender in Cicero : oratorical hegemony and the manipulation of gender identity." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/5833.

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My contention in this thesis is that gender identity in Ciceronian oratorical performance is a rhetorical tool that has two aspects: first, it enables Cicero as an orator to gain access to forensic space, and second, it facilitates the persuasion of his audience. The aim of this work is to discuss the concept of oratorical hegemony within a Ciceronian context; it is based on the idea that rhetoric functions in a political space essentially as a tool for governance regardless of the ideological leaning of the speaker or of the political or social body that he represents. The position taken in this thesis is that the rhetoric of a political orator such as Cicero is connected with a range of other factors that empower and lend versatility to his rhetorical position. Invariably, an orator such as Cicero has to manoeuvre within a wider context than what any particular speech situation might suggest on the surface. As a basis for examination, I have developed three models to create an appropriate framework for the discussions on oratorical hegemony. The first model, which I have termed the Anatomy of a Speech, shows only the stages of preparation and of the delivery of a speech. The second model, the Ciceronian Improvisatory Model, depicts the development of Cicero in his speeches during different periods of his public career. The third model, which I call the Phallic Model of Hegemonic Masculinity, is a sociological model constructed to accommodate the different structures of Roman Society. My deconstruction of the different sectors of the model form the core chapters in this thesis. Although this model has been informed by the close reading of social history that features in most discourses on gender, my discussion of the model implicitly challenges the view that women were universally and equally oppressed across races and cultures. My more important argument is that gender identity becomes not only a rhetorical tool in the hands of the orator but also a manipulative 'sign' within a social discourse. Although basic class and gender distinctions may be implicit in the orator's delivery. what matters more is his ability to deploy strategically the rhetorical means at his disposal. Issues relating to power, nationalism and the representation of men, women and slaves are discussed in connection with the orator's performance strategies in a political context. Because the Roman public forum is associated with competition and the young Roman male aspired to high honours and political attainments (laus et gloria) , power becomes a major issue in my discussion. The orator's quest for political and rhetorical glory entails challenging the best orators in the state and questioning the rationale behind the tendencies of some government administrators to abuse the rights of other members of civil society who are not as highly placed as they are in government. The orator progressively wields power through his performance of rhetoric, although when he is in the process of gaining national recognition for excellent speaking, he is apt to argue that his paramount concern is what is best for the state. Hard work in the oratorical arena often resulted in a high political profile for the orator, which occasionally led to the attainment of a powerful political position such as a consulship, a position achieved by Gieero himself in 63 BC. Cieero's ability to represent himself, contemporary events and his subjects imaginatively while delivering his speeches enabled him to persuade his audience on many occasions. Cicero's alternation between the spaces of senate and general assembly as consul and the kind of discourses that he develops in each space are important subjects of discussion in this thesis. Furthermore, Cicero's private persona is considered by examining his fears and anxieties to establish how much distance there is between his public self and private self. Within a cluster of personae, the stress to which Cicero is subjected opens him up to express in the oratorical arena certain fears that normally are meant for the private space in a Roman context. To complete my deconstruction of the Phallic Model of Hegemonic Masculinity, I have chosen to discuss Cicero's representation of slaves as a social manifestation of the bottom rung of the Roman world. Because discussions of oratorical hegemony in the Roman republic not only undertake to consider how it is used as a tool for governance but also its effect upon slaves, who represent the lowest stratum of the social order, this thesis examines Cicero's representation of the role, function and employment of slaves in respect to the power relations that existed between the dominant group and that particular subordinated group. In the final analysis, oratorical hegemony is not a paradigm for a specific orator. Oratorical hegemony functions among a group of orators who have gained political ascendancy through their performance of rhetoric. Cicero is not just a historical figure but he also represents a concept or form of oratorical hegemony. This thesis ultimately explains how Cicero selVes as a model for the exercise of this kind of oratorical practice.
Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of Natal, Durban, 2001.

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Stull, William Carnill. "The representation of authority in Cicero's dialogues /." 2001. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3039057.

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Simone, Ashley. "Cicero Among the Stars: Natural Philosophy and Astral Culture at Rome." Thesis, 2020. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-4ntx-kv74.

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This dissertation examines Cicero’s contribution to the rise of astronomy and astrology in the literary and cultural milieu of the late Republic and early Empire. Chapter One, “Rome’s Star Poet,” examines how Cicero conceives of world building through words to connect Rome to the stars with the Latin language. Through a close study of the Aratea, I consider how Cicero’s pioneering of Latin astronomical language influenced other writers, especially his contemporaries Lucretius and Catullus. In Chapter Two, “The Stars and the Statesman,” I examine Cicero’s attitudes towards politics. By analyzing Scipio’s Dream and astronomy in De re publica, I show how Cicero uses cosmic models to yoke Rome to the stars. To understand the astral dimensions of Cicero’s philosophy, in Chapter Three, “Signs and Stars, Words and Worlds,” I provide a close reading of Cicero’s poetic quotations in context in the De natura deorum and De divinatione to show how Cicero puts the Aratean cosmos to the test in Academic fashion. Ultimately, I argue that Cicero profoundly shaped the Roman view of the stars and cemented the link between cosmos and empire.

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Dufallo, Basil John. "Ciceronian oratory and the ghosts of the past." 1999. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/51824466.html.

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Mansoori-Dara, Reva. "Divine and sublime creativity : a comparison of Schenkerian and Ciceronian principles." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11866.

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As is clear from the title, this thesis presents a comparison of Schenkerian and Ciceronian principles. The thesis will focus mainly on the characteristics of the creative process essential for producing a sublime and intellectual work. Admittedly comparing a Roman lawyer/philosopher (Cicero) to a 20th century musician/theorist (Schenker) will bring forth many obstacles and will suffer from numerous imperfections. Stressing the commonalties between two men of time frames too far apart is an arduous task. I found it most helpful to go about this problem through three stages: first, by presenting an overview of the lives, historical circumstances, and careers of the two mentioned figures; second, by presenting a basic comparison of the two branches of thought; and third, by dealing with some of the more complicated philosophical issues for a better understanding of the two doctrines. Since many of the Schenkerian and Ciceronian principles are heavily rooted in Platonism, an overview of Plato's theory of 'forms and ideas' is presented to guide the reader toward a better grasp of the concepts. The reader may, however, be uncertain regarding the objective of this thesis: is this a comparison of the two philosophies or an evaluation of them? Of course, in order to achieve a satisfactory comparison, one must first understand the two philosophies; this demands an explicit analysis which, in my view, is a form of evaluation. I have also shown and questioned some of the ambiguities of the two philosophies without offering any solutions. This will perhaps help the reader to understand the path I had to take in completing this thesis. I have included these philosophical remarks in the endnotes. Furthermore, Schenkerian philosophy reveals many other important influences other than Platonism; although not the focus of this thesis, numerous references to great thinkers such as Nietzsche, Spinoza, Hanslick, and Freud illustrate this point. Much of the presented bibliographical material on the life of Cicero can be found in the On the Commonwealth and On the Laws. Furthermore, Michael B. Fuster's Masters of Political Thought has been used as a source of reference for a great portion of the philosophical interpretations. Much of what I have presented on Schenker and Schenkerian literature has been gathered through my studies and conversations with Dr. Benjamin, my advisor: the most reliable source with whom I am acquainted. This is perhaps the reason for not including any other philosophical writings on Schenkerian literature in the bibliography.

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de, Brauw Michael Christopher. "The rhetoric of litigiousness and legal expertise in Cicero and the Attic orators." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/29811.

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Traditional accounts of ancient law make the following generalizations: Athenian law was a system of amateurs and, consequently, arbitrary and irrational. Roman law, by contrast, gradually became a system of specialized professionals. Legal scholars (jurists) interpreted and developed the law and advocates represented litigants. Thanks to specialization, Roman law became rational and consistent--a foundation for Rome's imperial administration as well as many modern legal systems. Bruce Frier has argued in a landmark book that this development ("the rise of the Roman jurists") began in the last century of the republic, and that it was endorsed by Cicero. By examining how Cicero and the Attic orators discuss legal expertise and litigation, I seek to revise this standard picture in two ways. First, I argue that Athenians were not hostile to legal knowledge per se, but to expertise in litigation. I find, furthermore, that learning from the laws was part of the moral training of Athenian citizens. I then argue that Cicero's attitude towards legal expertise was not progressive, but reactionary. Litigation was a moral issue in the Roman republic no less than in democratic Athens. In Cicero's opinion, the true legal expert--whether an orator, a jurist, or a statesman--is a figure with the moral authority to resolve conflicts without debate. Cicero promulgates an ideology of law wherein litigation ideally would be unnecessary, and citizens' disputes would be resolved by their "natural" superiors.
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