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Author_John Dugan
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Product details
- ISBN 9780199267804
- Weight: 597g
- Dimensions: 146 x 223mm
- Publication Date: 03 Mar 2005
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In Making a New Man John Dugan investigates how Cicero (106-43 BCE) uses his major treatises on rhetorical theory (De oratore, Brutus, and Orator) in order to construct himself as a new entity within Roman cultural life: a leader who based his authority upon intellectual, oratorical, and literary accomplishments instead of the traditional avenues for prestige such as a distinguished familial pedigree or political or military feats. Eschewing conventional Roman notions of manliness, Cicero constructed a distinctly aesthetized identity that flirts with the questionable domains of the theatre and the feminine, and thus fashioned himself as a `new man'.
John Dugan is Assistant Professor in the Classics Department, State University of New York at Buffalo.
