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