COMM1010 Lecture Notes - Elocutio, Inventio, Quintilian
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Roman republic becomes roman empire (~70 bc: why the gap, aristotle"s works were massive, all the works were based off of him, the power struggle between greece and rome, alexander the great dies (cid:224) romans want to gain greece, roman republic becomes powerful, our center of focus shifts to rome, rome then falls into an empire (prior people had been elected in the senate) the senate stops being about the people and about internal power the republic ceases to work as a republic, cicero, 106 bc 43 bc, greatest roman orator and rhetorical theorist of rome, liked to tell people this, wrote frequently and alot, established the canons of rhetoric, assassinated, aristotle played a large role in the development of the canons, caesar names himself perpetual dictator (cid:224) senate and military don"t like (cid:224) caesar killed (cid:224) cicero killed for, head placed outside senate as a warning for anyone that speaks out against a dictator, cicero"s canons of rhetoric.
