Book contents
- Persuasion, Rhetoric and Roman Poetry
- Persuasion, Rhetoric and Roman Poetry
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Poetry in Rhetoric
- Chapter 1 Poetry and Rhetoric and Poetry in Rhetoric
- Chapter 2 Poetry and the Poetic in Seneca the Elder’s Controuersiae and Suasoriae
- Chapter 3 The Orator and the Poet in Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria
- Part II Oratory in Epic
- Part III “Rhetoricizing” Poetry
- References
- Index Locorum
- General Index
Chapter 2 - Poetry and the Poetic in Seneca the Elder’s Controuersiae and Suasoriae
from Part I - Poetry in Rhetoric
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 August 2019
Book contents
- Persuasion, Rhetoric and Roman Poetry
- Persuasion, Rhetoric and Roman Poetry
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Poetry in Rhetoric
- Chapter 1 Poetry and Rhetoric and Poetry in Rhetoric
- Chapter 2 Poetry and the Poetic in Seneca the Elder’s Controuersiae and Suasoriae
- Chapter 3 The Orator and the Poet in Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria
- Part II Oratory in Epic
- Part III “Rhetoricizing” Poetry
- References
- Index Locorum
- General Index
Summary
Seneca the Elder’s account of Ovid’s relationship to the declaimers has typically been used to construct an argument for the growing influence of rhetoric on poetic practice. A close reading of the work and of Seneca’s cultural agenda reveals that the author has a stake in using poetry and the poetic to foreground his own version of a more wholesome model of rhetorical education embodied by Latro’s Spanish school.
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- Persuasion, Rhetoric and Roman Poetry , pp. 46 - 87Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019