{"product_id":"ciceros-accretive-style","title":"Cicero's Accretive Style","description":"\u003ci\u003eCicero's Accretive Style\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about the nature of the Ciceronian \u003ci\u003eexordium\u003c\/i\u003e and its rhetorical structure and function. Through a sentence-by-sentence stylistic analysis of the \u003ci\u003eexordia\u003c\/i\u003e of a selection of Cicero's judicial speeches, this book explores how Cicero uses a variety of rhetorical strategies to fulfill the aims of the \u003ci\u003eexordium\u003c\/i\u003e as he himself defined them. The speeches selected for study include the \u003ci\u003ePro Quinctio, Pro Roscio Amerino,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePro Rege Deiotaro,\u003c\/i\u003e and cover the span of Cicero's career. The focus of the analysis is on Cicero's \"accretive\" style—not a rhetorical device in the formal sense, but a conscious, stylistic effort whose effect is rhetorical. Because Cicero also wrote important treatises on oratory and rhetoric, this book measures how closely Cicero followed his own guidelines laid down for the \u003ci\u003eexordium\u003c\/i\u003e, and how and under what circumstances he deviated or departed from them.","brand":"University Press of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54255749595480,"sku":"9780761804383","price":87.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780761804383_c2d5ea90-f7c0-4be6-a7cf-8f7802be3f1d.jpg?v=1769697920","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/ciceros-accretive-style","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}