Description
About the Author
Brian Walters is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has previously published a translation of Lucan's Civil War (Hackett, 2015), in addition to various poems, and articles on Cicero, Roman oratory, and metaphor.
Reviews
This book aims to gather the surviving evidence for republican discourse on the body politic, to uncover its shared ideological underpinnings and resonances, and to understand Cicero's idiosyncratic usages and goals. * NT WORLD *
... anyone wishing to pursue any significant study of imagery in Republican literature-in particular oratory-will first consult Walters as a necessary and convenient starting point. * James M. May, St. Olaf College, Religious Studies Review *
In this slim, but by no means lightweight, volume, Walters dissects Roman republican imagery of the body politic, carving out how, why, and with what potential effects Cicero and his contemporaries, in particular, employed bodily potential effects Cicero and his contemporaries, in particular, employed bodily metaphors, similes, and analogies to describe their state, its institutions, and its wellbeing. * Henriette van der Blom, Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Birmingham, Polis *
In just 120 pages it is complete and accurate as a catalogue, and breaks new ground in a busy literature... this is an excellent, engaging book of high scholarship of the republican period... It will be of interest to anyone interested in Cicero's rhetoric, philosophy, or politics; scholars and students of the late republican era; and early modernists and comparativists interested in the use of body-political imagery in Latin speeches, poems, philosophica, and history of the 1st century BCE. * Evan Dutmer, Culver Academies, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198839576
Author Brian Walters
Format Hardback
Page Count 176
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 350g
Dimensions(mm) 223mm * 147mm * 16mm