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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'.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Making a New Man
• Subtitle: Ciceronian Self-Fashioning in the Rhetorical Works
• Author: John Dugan
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 400
• EAN: 9780199267804
• ISBN: 0199267804
• ID: 04531041
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 594 g
• Dimensions: 147 × 224 × 30 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. March 2005

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