Cicero the advocate

Cicero's courtroom speeches are the most significant examples we have of the art of the ancient Roman advocate. This book takes the speeches seriously as examples of advocacy designed to secure a verdict, aiming to set them in context of the Roman legal system, and to compare their methods with...

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Main Author: Powell, J. G. F.
Other Authors: Paterson, Jeremy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2004, 2004
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