“Against a tyrant” and “for a tyrannicide”. Rhetoric paideía and political action in Cicero

Authors

  • María José Leorza Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias Universidad Nacional del Litoral-CONICET. Instituto de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales del Litoral (IHuCSo) Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias. Centro de Investigaciones en Estudios Culturales, Educativos, Históricos y Comunicacionales (CIECEHC)

Keywords:

Paideía, Rhetoric, Progymnasma, Tyrant, Political action

Abstract

The present paper studies the greco-latin “rhetoric paideia” in Cicero’s Pro Milone. In this forensic speech we analyse the presence of a structure similar to the one of the school exercise of rethorical education koinós topos or “common topics”. We identify the following themes: “against a tyrant” and “for a tyrannicide”, distinctive of the progymnasma. These themes add to the composition of the figures of the tyrant and the tyrannicide. We claim that both figures are a rhetorical and a political construction made by Cicero and that they mould the practice of a particular political action in the public life of the Roman Late Republic: the tyrannicide

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Published

10/19/2018

How to Cite

Leorza, M. J. (2018). “Against a tyrant” and “for a tyrannicide”. Rhetoric paideía and political action in Cicero. De Rebus Antiquis, (7), 35–68. Retrieved from https://e-revistas.uca.edu.ar/index.php/DRA/article/view/1368

Issue

No. 7 (2017)

Section

Artículos

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