The Cultivation of Character and Culture in Roman Rhetorical Education

The Available Means
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-31678-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 170 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 429 g

Reihe: Routledge Approaches to History

At its very center, The Cultivation of Character and Culture in Roman Rhetorical Education: The Available Means is a study of the subtle, organic ways that rhetoric can work to cultivate a particular character. This is an extension of the current work in composition studies, which focus on the ways that writing instruction contributes to the development of individual power and agency in students, combined with an ancient understanding of the ways that students learned to act within a particular, accepted cultural framework.

It recognizes and reclaims a lost dimension of rhetoric, a dimension that is conceptually linked to the martial culture of the ancient world, to show how ancient rhetorical theory framed the discipline as an education in thinking, speaking, and acting in ways that were necessary to be both a persuasive speaker and an effective leader. Through close readings and analysis of particular rhetorical exercises, the book shows how rhetorical education shaped characters that were appropriate in the eyes of the dominant culture but were also capable of working independently to progressively alter that culture.

In showing the ways that rhetorical education shaped a particular character, the book demonstrates the ways that the combination character, culture, and virtue are vital to leadership in any time.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zupancic, Anthony Edward

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Berufliche Bildung Berufs- und Studienberatung, Karriereplanung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. 1. Character, Virtue, and the Heroic Tradition 2. All I Learned, I Learned from Soldiering: Military Virtue at Rome 3. The Orator is a Warrior: Metaphor in Rhetorical Theory 4. Models of Character, Teachers of Language 5. Progymnasmata: What Would Achilles Do? 6. Defending Character: The vir fortis in Declamation 7. Rhetoric as Leadership at Rome

Über Autor(innen)

Anthony Edward Zupancic is an academy professor in the Department of English and Philosophy at the US Military Academy. His research interests include classical rhetoric, structures of power and culture in empires, and the mechanisms of character development.