1st Edition
The Cultivation of Character and Culture in Roman Rhetorical Education The Available Means
By Anthony Edward Zupancic
Copyright 2024
170 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
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At its very center, The Cultivation of Character and Culture in Roman Rhetorical Education: The Available Means is a study of the subtle, organic ways that rhetoric can work to cultivate a particular character. This is an extension of the current work in composition studies, which focus on the ways that writing instruction contributes to the development of individual power and agency in... Read more
Introduction. 1. Character, Virtue, and the Heroic Tradition 2. All I Learned, I Learned from Soldiering: Military Virtue at Rome 3. The Orator is a Warrior: Metaphor in Rhetorical Theory 4. Models of Character, Teachers of Language 5. Progymnasmata: What Would Achilles Do? 6. Defending Character: The vir fortis in Declamation 7. Rhetoric as Leadership at Rome
Biography
Anthony Edward Zupancic is an academy professor in the Department of English and Philosophy at the US Military Academy. His research interests include classical rhetoric, structures of power and culture in empires, and the mechanisms of character development.
