Cicero, Catullus, and the Language of Social Performance Paperback - 2001 - 1st Edition
by Brian A. Krostenko
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Charm, wit, and style were critical, but dangerous, ingredients in the social repertoire of the Roman elite. Their use drew special attention, but also exposed one to potential ridicule or rejection for valuing style over substance. Brian A. Krostenko explores the complexities and ambiguities of charm, wit, and style in Roman literature of the late Republic by tracking the origins, development, and use of the terms that described them, which he calls the language of social performance. As Krostenko demonstrates, a key feature of this language is its capacity to express both approval and disdain--an artifact of its origins at a time when the style and charm of imported Greek cultural practices were greeted with both enthusiasm and hostility. Cicero played on that ambiguity, for example, by chastising lepidus (fine) boys in the Second Oration against Catiline as degenerates, then arguing in his De Oratore that the successful speaker must have a certain charming lepos (wit). Catullus, in turn, exploited and inverted the political subtexts of this language for innovative poetic and erotic idioms.
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- Title Cicero, Catullus, and the Language of Social Performance
- Author Brian A. Krostenko
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL
- Date 2001-04
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780226454443 / 0226454444
- Weight 1.12 lbs (0.51 kg)
- Dimensions 9.09 x 6.03 x 0.85 in (23.09 x 15.32 x 2.16 cm)
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- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Library of Congress subjects Rhetoric, Ancient, Rome - Social life and customs
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00030215
- Dewey Decimal Code 875.010
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- Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2001, Page 213
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