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Joan Booth
Cicero on the Attack
Invective and subversion in the orations and beyond

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Eight new essays, from a distinguished international cast, examine the techniques of Cicero’s verbal aggression. Analysis includes political and forensic context but also Cicero’s own formal theory of rhetoric and his debts to other genres, literary and dramatic.

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Limba Engleză ● Format PDF ● Pagini 220 ● ISBN 9781910589496 ● Editor Joan Booth ● Editura The Classical Press of Wales ● Publicat 2007 ● Descărcabil 3 ori ● Valută EUR ● ID 5507038 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM

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