That tyrant, persuasion : how rhetoric shaped the Roman world

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Preface = xi
• Acknowledgments = xvii
• Section I. The Str a nge Wor ld of
• Education in the Roman Empire = 1
• 1 Education in the Roman Empire = 3
• 2 The Social and Historical Significance of
• Rhetorical Education = 14
• Section II. Killing Julius Ca esar as the
• Tyrant of Rhetoric = 27
• 3 The Carrion Men = 29
• 4 Puzzles about the Conspiracy = 37
• 5 Who Was Thinking Rhetorically? = 51
• Section III. Rhetor ic’s Cur ious Children :
• Building in the Cities of the Roman Empire = 65
• 6 Monumental Nymphaea = 67
• 7 City Walls, Colonnaded Streets, and the Rhetorical
• Calculus of Civic Merit = 88
• Section IV. Lizar ding, a nd Other A dventur es
• in Declamation and Roman Law = 107
• 8 Rhetoric and Roman Law = 111
• 9 The Attractions of Declamatory Law = 119
• 10 Legal Puzzles, Familiar Laws, and Laws of Rhetoric
• Rejected by Roman Law = 132
• Conclusion : Rhetoric, Maker of Worlds = 148
• Notes = 157
• Abbreviations of Some Modern Works = 229
• Works Cited = 231
• Index = 287