The authority of the dead among the living in Republican Rome : a rhetorical analysis of Cicero's oratory
This dissertation focuses upon the role of ancestors and of the dead in the speeches of Cicero, in order to explore the ways in which Rome’s past could be made central to public discourse, and could be manipulated in order to guarantee or provide for a particular outcome in legal or political situat...
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University of Cambridge
2010
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.596935 |