The hidden tyrant: insinuations and subtle criticism in Cicero’s Caesarian Orations

• Autores: Giovanni Margiotta
• Localización: Giornale italiano di filologia, ISSN 0017-0461, Nº. 75, 2023, págs. 133-164
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper aims to improve the knowledge of figured speech (oratio figurata) through an analysis of Cicero’s Caesarian Orations. I assert that in these speeches Cicero addresses Julius Caesar by adopting a ‘figured rhetoric’ which intermingles praise, advice, admonition and even subtle criticism. By investigating these rhetorical strategies, it will be shown that Cicero increasingly – but obliquely – projects the spectre of tyranny to the autocratic regime of Julius Caesar