EN 1006 Lecture Notes - Cursus Honorum, Epideictic, Quintilian
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En 1007 fall 2009 carol poster. Lecture 6 issue theory and parts of oration oct 26. Ancient pseudo epigraphy [how do we know who wrote what, ways, means and motives of pseudonymnity]. Terminology: ps. -cicero [pseudo-cicero], auctor ad herennium: formal ways to refer to in print to a pseudo author. Many passages quoted by quintilian from cornificius are can be found in this text but details don"t match precisely. Forensic oratory would be used in court. Epideictic public lectures, mass" display poems at festivals. Legislative in the legislature: continue to get court cases. Republic, principate, empire (cicero and caesar: town of long nosed fish throw rubbish on carpets, tetanus treated crocodiles are divine when they died, they were. Class system: legal status: citizen, freedman, perigrinus, slave, ranks: royalty, wrapped and made into papery: pig stealing neighbours would steal pigs, inheritance fights. senator, equestrian, plebeian. Patronage system: increase of lit skills, professions devoted to lit skills.