The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World 300 B.C.-A.D. 300 (A by George A. Kennedy

By George A. Kennedy

The Description for this booklet, background of Rhetoric, quantity II: The paintings of Rhetoric within the Roman global three hundred B.C.-300 A.D, might be forthcoming.

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Cicero (Brutus 57) compares Eupolis' remark of Pericles, that peauasion sat upon his lips. " reports ancient discussions of Ennius' line. , died 149. He was a "new man," that is, none of his· ancestors had held high office in Route. Principal sources are Livy, Polybius, Cornelius Nepos, P1utarc;h. Fragments in ORF and Dietrnar Kienast, Coto der ZeJl8Or: Seine PersJjnlichkeit und 811ine Zeit, mit den Redefragmente Colos, Heidelberg, 1954. Cf. cit. supra n. t:it. supra n. 38 CATO THE ELDER quotations in later writers who often preserve only a few words, at most a few sentences.

19; F. W. WaIbank, A Historical Com- 32 THE SPEECHES IN POLYBIUS Iished "tragic" history being written in his time and to the invention of speeches decked out with all the possible arguments as he found them, for example, in the Greek historian Timaeus. ~5bl and i8). " At the beginning of book 36 he comments on the procedure which he has been following. He uses the word apangelo "report," of his treatment of speeches, he again criticizes historians who like to make up their speeches, and he again says that it is proper for an historian to find out carefully "what was truly said," but to report only the most apt and telling parts.

Quint. 2.. 23 EARLY ROMAN RHETORIC Dio Cassius, and in the work of the great Latin historian of Augustan times, Titus Livy. The early books of Livy are fitted out with oratory richly woven from the historical situation, the possible arguments available, and Livy's impression of the character of the speaker. The result is not very good evidence for early oratory, though it is an interesting product of the rhetoric of Livy's own day. To him it did not seem incongruous to project backward the rhetorical standards and tastes of the late republic and early empire to a much more simple time, for rhetoric was regarded as natural and necessary; moreover, verisimilitude was far less important than artistic creativity, and historicity less interesting than the organic portrayal of the growth of the Roman mystique toward its destined greatness.

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