1st Edition

Rhetoric in Cicero's Pro Balbo

By Kimberly A. Barber Copyright 2004
    182 Pages
    by Routledge

    178 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book offers an examination of Cicero's speech, the Pro Balbo, which was delivered during a momentous period of Roman history, in defence of a highly influential political advisor of Caesar who was charged under the lex Papia for an illegal grant of citizenship.

    Introduction 1. Inventio: Ethos 2. Inventio: Pathos 3. Inventio: Logos 4. Dispositio 5. Elocutio Conclusions Notes Bibliography General Index Index of Passages Discussed

    Biography

    Kimberly A. Barber received a Ph.D. in Classics in 1997 from the University of Texas, Austin, and an LL.B. in 1998 from the University of Toronto, Ontario. She currently practices law in Ottawa, Ontario.