Cicero's Economy of Praise.
This paper argues that the rhetorical uses of praise are at least as culturally interesting as the use of invective, which has received much more scholarly attention. After brief comments on "Cicero's conceit" - the title of Walter Allen's classic article on the subject, which held (correctly, I bel...
| Publicado en: | Scripta Classica Israelica Vol. 39; pp. 1 - 15 |
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Israeli Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies
2020
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