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Catiline as Portrayed by Cicero and Sallust
… Catiline has "been written chiefly by Sallust, Cicero and Plutarch. The last named mentions him in his lives of Caesar and Cicero. All of these men have failed to give us a true portrayal of Catiline's character for they were not historians in the true sense. Cicero is striving to prove the …
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The critical treatment of myths in Cicero and Lucretius
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Latin and Greek, 1928.
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Werkstoffkundliche Untersuchungen vollkeramischer Restaurationssysteme hergestellt nach dem CICERO®-Verfahren
Mit der vorgelegten Arbeit wurden die von der Firma Elephant® Dental, NL-Hoorn, angebotenen vollkeramischen Verbundsysteme Synthoceram/Sintagon und Zircagon/Zircagon auf mechanische wie auch chemische Eigenschaften hin untersucht. Dabei wurde die biaxiale Biegefestigkeit sowie die chemische …
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Men of Letters: The Oratorical and Philosophical Relationship Between Cicero and Brutus
The friendship between Cicero and Brutus, which has been largely untouched in scholarship, began around 51 B.C. when Cicero was governor in Cilicia, and continued until Cicero's death in December 43 B.C. Their relationship, like any other, had its points of harmony and departure. This dissertation …
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Metaphors Cicero lived by : The Role of Metaphor and Simile in De senectute
… examines the function of metaphor and simile in Cicero’s dialogue De senectute. For this purpose, it employs Lakoff-Johnsonian metaphor theory and compares the metaphorical concepts that the scholars of that tradition have found in English with the metaphors found in Cicero’s text. Many languages …
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Reclaiming happiness of the city and the soul : Augustine's engagement with Cicero and Porphyry in the City of God.
… criticisms of the Christian teachings. Since Cicero and Porphyry were the major philosophers who taught a way to happiness on socio-political and contemplative levels respectively, Augustine presents the Christian faith as the single way to the true commonwealth and the beatific vision which …
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Toward a New Reading of Cicero's De Finibus
<p>In this dissertation, I argue that Cicero has two primary, interdependent aims in De finibus: the critical assessment of the dominant ethical positions, and the education of his readers. These aims are accomplished through four key devices. First, Cicero develops flat, useful readings of the …
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Sacral Citizenship: Philosophies of the City from Plato to Augustine
… citizenship in the writings of Plato, Aristotle, Cicero and Augustine in their historical contexts. Aristotle is considered as a critic of Plato and Augustine of Cicero, with Cicero considered as poised between Plato and the Stoic legacy. The aim of this examination is to test certain still …
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The self-sufficiency of the good man against the need for friendship. A discussion concerning the importance of friendship for the good man in Cicero.
Cicero wrote in Book Three of On Duties, that the Stoic sage being absolutely good and and perfect was the only one that could be truly happy. For his happiness was based in his virtue and as he had perfect virtue, he had perfect and lasting happiness. Yet the Peripatetics saw that happiness was …
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Augustine against the academic doctrine, way of life, and use of philosophical writing.
… polemical role of the dialogue as a response to Cicero's Academic Skepticism. I offer a reading of the first of Augustine's Cassiciacum dialogues, the Contra Academicos, that shows how his work can be read as a comprehensive rejection of the Academic philosophical life and doctrine as presented …
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De Opificio Lactantii: a reassessment of the work of L. Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius.
… Lactantius regarded himself as the Christian Cicero, the way that he has sometimes been described by commentators, and� that this self-understanding determines the whole character of his work. Chapter 1 argues that such a self-understanding is suggested by Lactantius' references to Cicero and …
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Time and language in Patrick White's “A fringe of leaves”
Fil: Cicero, Karina R. Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras; Argentina
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Wading into semantic depths : a poststructuralist approach to Toni Morrison's Beloved
Fil: Cicero, Karina R. Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras; Argentina
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<i>Academicus ille Augustinus</i>? Augustine’s Rehabilitation of Academic skepticism
… philosophical method, most famously practiced by Cicero and his Greek predecessors, but that he rehabilitated it for the purpose of hiding, defending, and seeking Christian truth. Paradoxically, for Augustine, the proper exercise of Academic skepticism stimulates faith and understanding.</p> <p>In …
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Holiness and humanism: a comparative-religions commentary on book 2 of Cicero’s laws, with special reference to Confucianism and Chinese thought
… remarks, the commentary discusses in Cicero's sequence: how place connects to ancient times and traditions (4), God's Law and his judgment on human laws (5-6), tension between Roman religion and Greek philosophy (7), and the setting forth of Cicero's code of religious law (8), the code …
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The Syntax of the Simple Cases and of the Cases with Prepostions in Pliny's Natural History, Book VII
… he deviates very little from the norms set by Cicero. His frequent use of the Genitive is quite regular; His excessive use of the Genitive of Definition is due primarily to his frequent use of such words asi gens, pars, etc. He employs the Dative of Reference freely. The Accusative usages …
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Consistency and Variation in Cicero's Oratorical Style
… to dispel the prevalent misconception that Cicero's style is monotonously the same, overornate, bombastic, self-indulgent. The question we set out to answer is whether there are any substantial stylistic differences between orations of Cicero belonging to the same year or period. Our point …
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A rhetorical legacy: the art of memory's place in literature and semiotics
… latter two have all but disappeared from view. Cicero's rhetoric certainly included all five canons of rhetoric. In De Oratore, his version of the art of memory focuses on order, place, and symbol. Using Cicero's three terms, this study investigates semiotics (as an offshoot of memoria) and …
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The Metalogicon of John of Salisbury: Medieval Rhetoric as Educational Praxis
… "John of Salisbury's Intellectual Influences: Cicero and Aristotle," explores how the writings of Cicero and Aristotle informed John's assumptions about the relationship between Ciceronian rhetoric and Aristotelian dialectics within medieval rhetorical education. John attempted to place the …
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Reintroducing Invention to Innovation: Investigating the White Space in Marketing Innovation
… concepts of rhetorical invention as designed by Cicero and Aristotle, it is proposed that key principles within invention may offer a starting point for refocusing the innovation process toward content and away from process.</p> <p>This study will explore the background of the consumer packaged …
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