Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Section I The Strange World of Education in the Roman Empire -- 1 Education in the Roman Empire -- 2 The Social and Historical Significance of Rhetorical Education -- Section II Killing Julius...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Section I The Strange World of Education in the Roman Empire -- 1 Education in the Roman Empire -- 2 The Social and Historical Significance of Rhetorical Education -- Section II Killing Julius Caesar as the Tyrant of Rhetoric -- 3 The Carrion Men -- 4 Puzzles about the Conspiracy -- 5 Who Was Thinking Rhetorically? -- Section III Rhetoric's Curious Children: Building in the Cities of the Roman Empire -- 6 Monumental Nymphaea -- 7 City Walls, Colonnaded Streets, and the Rhetorical Calculus of Civic Merit -- Section IV Lizarding, and Other Adventures in Declamation and Roman Law -- 8 Rhetoric and Roman Law -- 9 The Attractions of Declamatory Law -- 10 Legal Puzzles, Familiar Laws, and Laws of Rhetoric Rejected by Roman Law -- Conclusion rhetoric, maker of worlds -- Notes -- Abbreviations of some modern works -- Works cited -- Index How rhetorical training influenced deeds as well as words in the Roman EmpireThe assassins of Julius Caesar cried out that they had killed a tyrant, and days later their colleagues in the Senate proposed rewards for this act of tyrannicide. The killers and their supporters spoke as if they were following a well-known script. They were. Their education was chiefly in rhetoric and as boys they would all have heard and given speeches on a ubiquitous set of themes-including one asserting that "he who kills a tyrant shall receive a reward from the city." In That Tyrant, Persuasion, J. E. Lendon explores how rhetorical education in the Roman world influenced not only the words of literature but also momentous deeds: the killing of Julius Caesar, what civic buildings and monuments were built, what laws were made, and, ultimately, how the empire itself should be run.Presenting a new account of Roman rhetorical education and its surprising practical consequences, That Tyrant, Persuasion shows how rhetoric created a grandiose imaginary world for the Roman ruling elite-and how they struggled to force the real world to conform to it. Without rhetorical education, the Roman world would have been unimaginably different
