The Cultivation of Character and Culture in Roman Rhetorical Education
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The Cultivation of Character and Culture in Roman Rhetorical Education

The Available Means

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Cultivation of Character and Culture in Roman Rhetorical Education

The Available Means

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781032316789

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 Character, Virtue, and the Heroic Tradition
  12. 2 All I Learned, I Learned From Soldiering: Military Virtue at Rome
  13. 3 The Orator Is a Warrior: Metaphor in Rhetorical Theory
  14. 4 Models of Character, Teachers of Language
  15. 5 Progymnasmata: What Would Achilles Do?
  16. 6 Defending Character: The Vir Fortis in Declamation
  17. 7 Rhetoric as Leadership at Rome
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index