The world of Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus: aesthetics and empire in ancient Rome/
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Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press,
2014
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: rhetorical beginnings and rhetorical ends
- The Dialogus and its contexts
- Interpretations
- Interstitial strategies and reading around the speeches
- A world of eloquentia
- An aetiology of contemporary eloquentia
- From De oratore to De oratoribus
- Literary criticism and history: Cicero, Horace, and Quintilian in the Dialogus
- Conclusion.