A New History of Classical Rhetoric by Kennedy George A

Author:Kennedy, George A.
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781400821471
Publisher: Princeton University Press

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1 He often refers to his political associates as the boni, “the good guys.”

2 See Wooten, Cicero’s Philippics.

3 See also the comparison of the two in Longinus, On Sublimity 12.3–5.

4 For English versions, see Grant, Murder Trials and Selected Political Speeches in the Penguin series, and the volumes by a variety of translators in the Loeb Classical Library series.

5 For a fuller account of many of the speeches, see my Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World, 138–48, 149–204, and 259–282.

6 See May, Trials of Character, 14–21.

7 See Craig, Form as Argument, 27–45

8 See May, Trials of Character, 21–31.

9 For discussion, see my Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World, 156–65.

10 See Kirby, Rhetoric of Cicero’s Pro Cluentio.

11 In For Caecina 29 Cicero indicates that Cluentius had used bribes.

12 The primary function of praetors at this time was administration of the judicial system.

13 The conspiracy of Catiline was one of a series of attempts in Cicero’s lifetime to overthrow the republican constitution and wrest control of public policy from the senate, replacing it with a dictator or small oligarchy. Catiline himself was a dissolute aristocrat, motivated chiefly by a personal desire for money and power, but he attracted support from others like himself and from lower classes of society suffering from economic difficulties. Unlike other popular leaders who preceded or followed him—the Gracchi, Marius, Julius Caesar, and Octavian—he lacked personal integrity and offered no real program of administrative, social, and economic reform.

14 See May, Trials of Character, 58–69.

15 See Gotoff, Cicero’s Elegant Style, which contains discussion and commentary on the speech, with special attention to style.

16 See Craig, Form as Argument, 105–21.

17 See Geffcken, Comedy in the Pro Caelio.

18 The most imporant additions to the bibliography since publication of my Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World are the volumes (five are planned) of an extensive commentary in German, edited by Leeman, Pinkster, et al. See also Wisse, Ethos and Pathos. A new English version with notes, drawing on this commentary, is in preparation by May, Wisse, and Leff. Until the latter is published readers need to rely on the Loeb Classical Library edition of Sutton and Rackham, whose translation is at times faulty and whose paragraphing and marginal notes can be misleading. The best version of the Latin text is that of Kumaniecki in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana.

19 Cf. Aristotle’s distinction in On Rhetoric 1.1.21 between the “specifics” of a case and the “topics” of dialectic and rhetoric.

20 Crassus in 1.45–48 and Antonius in 1.84–89.

21 Hendrickson, in “Literary Sources,” argued that it is a regular technique of Ciceronian dialogue to attribute to an oral source doctrines and information that were in fact derived from written works.

22 Quintilian (6.3.4) mentions a collection of Cicero’s witticisms in three books, probably published by Cicero’s secretary Tiro after the orator’s death.

23 In addition to the bibliography cited in my Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World 223, see Janko, Aristotle on Comedy. Janko provides (19–41) text and translation of the Tractatus Coislinianus,

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