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ISBN 10: 0415251494
ISBN 13: 9780415251495
Author: Shane Butler
Hundreds perished in Rome’s Second Proscription, but one victim is remembered above all others. Cicero stands out, however, not only because of his fame, but also because his murder included a unique addition to the customary decapitation. For his corpse was deprived not only of its head, but also of its right hand. Plutarch tells us why Mark Antony wanted the hand that wrote the Philippics. But how did it come to pass that Rome’s greatest orator could be so hated for the speeches he had written? Charting a course through Cicero’s celebrated career, Shane Butler examines two principal relationships between speech and writing in Roman oratory: the use of documentary evidence by orators and the ‘publication’ of both delivered and undelivered speeches. He presents this fascinating theory that the success of Rome’s greatest orator depended as much on writing as speaking; he also argues against the conventional wisdom that Rome was an ‘oral society’, in which writing was rare and served only practical, secondary purposes.
Table of contents:
1 The Young Cicero, Reading
The first proscription
Pro Quinctio (81 BCE)
Pro Sexto Roscio Amerino (80 BCE)
Lex Cornelia de proscriptione
Tabulae publicae
Lists of the “proscribed”
2 Cicero Takes a Bath
An introduction to the prosecution of Verres
A first look at the prosecution of Verres
Why did Cicero win?
A few days in Syracuse
3 Multitudo Litterarum
A catalogue of the written evidence against Verres
Litterae publicae
Testimonium publicum
Accounts
Correspondence
Inscriptions
Records of legal proceedings
Edicts
Wills
Treaties
“Speech” of a ship’s captain
Miscellaneous
Expressions for the evidence as a whole
Collection of evidence
Documentary expertise
4 The Trial of Verres
5 Litterae Manent
The publication of the Verrines
The eyes of the world
6 December 3, 63 BCE
Convincing Rome of a conspiracy
7 The Young Cicero, Reading Writing after the Ides of March
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