Ethics, Identity, and Community in Later Roman Declamation. - BERNSTEIN, N.W.,
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'Neil Bernstein aligns himself with scholars of recent decades who have successfully argued that, in this and other ways, declamation was more than a mere rhetorical exercise. Bernstein?s specific contribution to declamation studies is a close reading of sixteen of the nineteen Declamationes Majores of ps.-Quintilian, probably by a number of different authors from the late first to the early third centuries. He has expended great care on his declaimers, and he deftly brings to bear on his argument both other ancient declamations and key Latin texts on the various ethical and social codes and issues raised. (...) What we learn from his close reading of them, though, is that declamations did not merely offer young elite males exposure to reigning cultural norms, but also gave them an opportunity to think about these norms and their complexities before inheriting their fathers? social positions, and to consider how to accommodate multiple perspectives (including those of social inferiors) and how they might beha...
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2013Uitgever: Oxford University Press229 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0199964114ISBN-13: 9780199964116Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2013. X,229p. Hardback. With dust wrps. Nice copy. Like new. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: BERNSTEIN, N.W.,] [Uitgever: Oxford University Press] [Jaar: 2013] [Titel: Ethics, Identity, and Community in Later Roman Declamation.]
