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1 online resource (xxiii, 167 pages) : maps |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Examines how rhetoric shaped the ancients' reality and played a part in the upkeep of their political structures. |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Republican Rome's Rhetorical Pattern of Political Authority -- Virtual Reality: To Win Fame and Practice Virtue -- Creation of a Public Image: Rome's Virtuous Man -- Virtue and Remembrance: The Tomb of the Scipiones -- Variations on the Theme: Cicero's Virtuous Roman -- Pater Patriae: Symbol of Authority and Embodiment of Tradition -- Virtuous Father: Gaius Julius Caesar -- Ch. 2. Empire of Words and Men -- Augustus's Achievements: A Memory Shaped -- Horace's Poem 3.2: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori -- Nero: What an Artist Dies with Me! -- Vespasian: The Upstart from Reate -- Trajan: Jupiter on Earth -- Maximus: Hollywood's Ideal Roman -- Ch. 3. Appropriation of a Pattern Mending the Known World Order -- New World Order -- Constantine, Very Wisely, Seldom Said "No" -- Pagan's Last Stand -- Augustine: The Christian Cicero -- Claudian's On the Fourth Consulate of Honorius -- Ch. 4. Power of Rhetoric -- Last Roman Emperor: Justinian -- First Byzantine Emperor: Heraclius -- View to the West: Charlemagne -- Back to the East: A Theocratic State? |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Rhetoric, Ancient.
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Rhetoric, Ancient. |
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Rome -- Politics and government.
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Rome (Empire) |
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Politics and government. |
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Byzantine Empire -- Politics and government.
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Byzantine Empire. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Takács, Sarolta A. Construction of authority in ancient Rome and Byzantium. Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2009 (DLC) 2008004828 |
| ISBN |
0511423896 (electronic book) |
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9780511423895 (electronic book) |
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9780511424373 (electronic book) |
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051142437X (electronic book) |
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0511423381 (electronic book) |
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9780511423383 (electronic book) |
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9780511511813 (ebook) |
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0511511817 (ebook) |
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9786611775865 |
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6611775862 |
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0521878659 (Cloth) |
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9780511422720 |
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9780521878654 |
| Standard No. |
X4359933 |
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