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Cicero's Letters - (P.) White Cicero in Letters. Epistolary Relations of the Late Republic. Pp. xiv + 235. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Cased, ÂŁ40. ISBN: 978-0-19-538851-0.
Representations: images of the world in Ciceronian oratory
Ann Vasaly introduces representation theory into the study of Ciceronian persuasion and contends that an understanding of milieu - social, political, topographical - is crucial to understanding Ciceronian oratory. As a genre uniquely dependent on an immediate interaction between author and audience, ancient oratory becomes performance art.Vasaly investigates the way Cicero represented the contemporary physical world - places, topography, and monuments, both those seen and those merely mentioned - to his listeners and demonstrates how he used these representations to persuade. Her exceptionally well-written study deftly recaptures the immediacy of Cicero's oratory and makes a trenchant contribution to an important new area of inquiry in Classical Studies
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