"Laceratio famae" : invective as facework in Cicero's "In Pisonem".
Recent discussions of Cicero’s In Pisonem have approached the functioning of invective in the speech mainly in terms of the orator’s ability to fashion rhetorical weapons from the audience’s social biases and, consequently, have focused on evidence of his success in injuring his opponent’s reputatio...
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University of British Columbia
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43906 |