An alternative would have been to divide the material between two volumes, one combining rhetorical theory with philosophy, the other the speeches with the letters, which shed so much light on them (this volume contains, however, no hint that another is contemplated to deal with the rest of the corpus).Ĭiceronian studies are, of course, international in character, and it seems reasonable to expect such a “companion” to reflect that fact.
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Admittedly, given the massive extent of Cicero’s corpus, some division of material may have been needed on pragmatic grounds of series format. non ex rhetorum officinis sed ex Academiae spatiis extitisse).
2.1-4) and to regard his work as an orator as tied to his philosophical training (Orat. The “companion” to an author as produced in the past is dedicated to his entire oeuvre the subtitle of this volume, “Oratory and Rhetoric,” therefore comes as a surprise, not least since Cicero himself tended to lump his writings on rhetorical theory together with those on philosophy (Div.
It is welcome that Brill is bucking that trend with this new volume and another recent one on Herodotus. The new “companions” specify an author or genre, and so far the most “companionable” authors seem to be the poets, with “companions” to Greek tragedy, Virgil, and Ovid already in print, and the philosophers (early Greek philosophy, Plato, Aristotle). Hall’s Companion to Classical Texts and Sir Paul Harvey’s Oxford Companion to Classical Literature, with the publisher specified in the title, as is now standard. For decades classicists had to content themselves with the Companions to Greek and Latin Studies by Leonard Whibley and Sir John Edwin Sandys respectively, later joined by F.E. Using your connections to other nodes of government (and pick their pockets as much as possible)! Making better use of the resources of Los Angeles! Such innovation! Why didn’t the current progressive Democrat mayor, Eric Garcetti, think of any of this? Why didn’t the progressive Democrat mayor before him, Antonio Villaraigosa, think of this? Or the liberal Democrat before both of them? They must have all been really dumb and/or incompetent.The “companion” seems to have come into its own as a scholarly genre in recent years. “That is not going to address the problem unless we align all of the resources that this country has to offer and certainly that our city has to offer.” “ You can come at this in a superficial way,” Ms. She has highlighted her connections to the state and federal governments and has said she would leverage those ties to bring more aid to help move people off the streets. Bass’s campaign has sought to address with urgency the fear and anger animating many voters while acknowledging that fixing the city’s deeply rooted problems will take systemic change - and, crucially, time. If Caruso in November gets half of the vote that went to other candidates, he’ll win.īut of more interest is Bass’s spin. They’re still counting, but it looks like it will come out something like Caruso 43, Bass 37.
(Pre-election polls had Bass around 36-37 percent, and Caruso around 32. Yesterday Rick Caruso ran ten points ahead of his pre-election polls to finish about six points ahead of leftist Karen Bass to be the next mayor of Los Angeles. One way to tell that progressivism is a weary, used-up creed, sustained only by raw power, resentment, and dreamy grasp of reality, is to listen to their increasingly banal cliches.
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