‘Dignitatis dicendi facultas’: oratorical prestige and public office’

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Abstract

This chapter concerns the prestige derived from oratory and, in particular, the relationship between oratorical prestige and public political office. Focusing on speeches delivered by young men who were not yet magistrates, especially funeral speeches and prosecution speeches, this chapter shows that oratorical prestige could be derived independently from prestige from public office, and that is could arise from both the content and the style of the oratory delivered.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLe Prestige à Rome à la fin de la République et au début du Principat
Subtitle of host publicationactes du colloque de la Maison de l'archéologie et de l'ethnologie, René-Ginouvès, Nanterre, 29-30 septembre 2014
EditorsRobinson Baudry, Frédéric Hurlet
Place of PublicationParis
PublisherDe Boccard
ISBN (Print)9782701804354
Publication statusPublished - 2016
EventLE PRESTIGE À ROME – Colloque de l’équipe ESPRI-LIMC - 21 allée de l'Université, 92023 Nanterre, Paris, France
Duration: 29 Sept 201430 Sept 2014

Publication series

NameColloques de la Maison René-Ginouvès
Volume13

Conference

ConferenceLE PRESTIGE À ROME – Colloque de l’équipe ESPRI-LIMC
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityParis
Period29/09/1430/09/14

Keywords

  • Marius
  • Brutus
  • Oratory
  • political office
  • prestige
  • dignitas
  • gloria
  • Cicero
  • Caesar
  • Cato

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