In this case study we explore Cicero’s processes of framing and image-building regarding the concept of an anti-mother/-woman.For this we examine Cicero’s portrayal of Sassia,a woman who features as one of the main ...
It has been ten years since the fourth edition of the Oxford Classical Dictionary(OCD)was published.There are five contributors to the Cicero entry(pp.1514-1519):J.P.V.D.Balsdon,M.T.Griffin(both for the"Life"part);J.G...
supported by the National Social Science Fund of China called “Translation and Research of Bacon’s Collected Works”(18BZX093);the Post-Funded Major Project by the Ministry of Education “Exegesis of the Apology of Socrates”(17JHQ0012);funded by the Scientific Research Foundation of Hainan University(kyqd[sk]18001)
In contemporary thinking, "reason" has become synonymous with "correctness" to the extent that it is even capable of prescribing laws to nature. Ancient philosophers, including Plato and Cicero, offered a holistic, pr...
Farington’s interpretation of the philosophies of Plato and Cicero as reactionary philosophies is discussed.In the light of our interpretative category,such as that of Traditions of Thought,understood as complex rati...
Cicero tried to take advantage of the War of Mutina in spring 44 BC,to vilify Mark Antony who,in his view,was the mortal foe to the res publica libera.In order to achieve his aim,Cicero used his letter-exchange with t...
This paper made a comparison of Cicero’s Rhetoric with Baumgarten’s Aesthetics,for answering the question of how Baumgarten built the system of ars aesthetica on the basis of Cicero’s rhetoric.The paper demonstrate...
The argumentative stasis theory and enthymeme principles richly complement each other but they have rarely been investigated jointly. We correct this oversight first with a principled re-analysis of the stasis traditi...