Beyond the speaker: the audience in Seneca the Elder
Seneca the Elder’s Controversiae and Suasoriae (c. 39 CE) provide a window onto declamation (fictional forensic or deliberative oratory) during the reign of the Roman emperor Augustus (27 BCE–CE 14). Although widely practiced as a form of elite education and entertainment, declamation was maligned b...
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2018
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| Online Access: | https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/9877 |