Aesthetics and Empire in Ancient Rome
by
Christopher S. van den Berg
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Coming to terms with the rhetorical arts of antiquity necessarily illuminates our own ideas of public discourse and the habits of speech to which they have led. Tacitus wrote the Dialogus at a time (ca. 100 CE) when intense scrutiny of the history, the definitions, and the immediate relevance of public...