Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought. - KAPUST, D.J.,
Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus
KORTE INHOUD
'The study of Roman political theory is undergoing a renaissance, and Daniel Kapust has added his own contribution to the discussion with this concise, accessible, and interesting volume. In this work, a revision and expansion of his dissertation, Kapust ?explores rhetoric, liberty, and their relationship to social and political conflict in Roman thought of the first century BCE and the first century CE. He argues that the free exercise of rhetoric is inextricably bound together with the ideas of Republicanism and liberty. Rhetoric is necessary for political activity to occur, and represents the means by which a res publica is publicly defined and conceived. Kapust presents Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus as promoting, respectively, an antagonistic conception of rhetoric and community, a consensualist conception, and rhetoric as a means of navigating political unfreedom. It should be stated at the outset that Kapust is a political scientist, not a classical philologist. Thus his interest in Sallust, Livy, and Taci...
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2014Uitgever: Cambridge University Press206 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1107425271ISBN-13: 9781107425279Koop dit boek tweedehands
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New York, 2014. 1st paperback ed. VIII,196p. Paperback. [New] [Auteur: KAPUST, D.J.,] [Uitgever: Cambridge University Press] [Jaar: 2014] [Titel: Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought.]
