That Tyrant, Persuasion: How Rhetoric Shaped the Roman World by Lendon, J. E.

That Tyrant, Persuasion: How Rhetoric Shaped the Roman World

How rhetorical training influenced deeds as well as words in the Roman Empire The assassins of Julius...
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That Tyrant, Persuasion: How Rhetoric Shaped the Roman World by Lendon, J. E.

That Tyrant, Persuasion: How Rhetoric Shaped the Roman World

$98.13

That Tyrant, Persuasion: How Rhetoric Shaped the Roman World

$98.13
Author: J. E. Lendon
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

How rhetorical training influenced deeds as well as words in the Roman Empire

The assassins of Julius Caesar cried out that they had killed a tyrant, and days later their colleagues in the Senate proposed rewards for this act of tyrannicide. The killers and their supporters spoke as if they were following a well-known script. They were. Their education was chiefly in rhetoric and as boys they would all have heard and given speeches on a ubiquitous set of themes--including one asserting that "he who kills a tyrant shall receive a reward from the city." In That Tyrant, Persuasion, J. E. Lendon explores how rhetorical education in the Roman world influenced not only the words of literature but also momentous deeds: the killing of Julius Caesar, what civic buildings and monuments were built, what laws were made, and, ultimately, how the empire itself should be run.

Presenting a new account of Roman rhetorical education and its surprising practical consequences, That Tyrant, Persuasion shows how rhetoric created a grandiose imaginary world for the Roman ruling elite--and how they struggled to force the real world to conform to it. Without rhetorical education, the Roman world would have been unimaginably different.

Author: J. E. Lendon
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 03/01/2022
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.20w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780691221007

About the Author
J. E. Lendon is Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins; Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity; and Empire of Honour: The Art of Government in the Roman World.

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