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Heuristic Strategies in the Speeches of Cicero

Part of the Argumentation Library Book Series (volume 23)

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-01799-0

ISBN: 978-3-319-01798-3

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Sep 12, 2013

1 - 10 of 10 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction

Tahin, Gábor

Pages: 1 –14

[Constructing forms of argument in ancient oratory was designed primarily to persuade the jury about the perceived truth of the prosecution or the defence. The only measure of success was whether the jury made the decision the orator intended to achieve. Standards of rational argumentation...
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Chapter 2Cicero and Heuristic Arguments

Tahin, Gábor

Pages: 15 –38

[This chapter begins with a brief survey of modern argumentation theory, including informal logic, argument schemes and strategic manoeuvring, to show that certain analytic models of reasoning can contribute to an understanding of classical oratory, whilst they have certain limitations, which...
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Chapter 3The Origins of Heuristic Argumentation: Probabilistic Arguments in Ancient Rhetoric

Tahin, Gábor

Pages: 39 –49

[In this chapter I have a closer look at the concept of probability (εἰκός, πιθανόν, probabile and veri simile) in ancient Greek and Roman rhetorical theory to trace the origins of heuristic reasoning to the arguments which use the notion of likelihood as a basis of proof. First, I discuss the...
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Chapter 4Cicero’s Models: Heuristic Arguments in the Greek Orators

Tahin, Gábor

Pages: 51 –73

[It is well-known that the Roman orator Cicero had a good knowledge of Greek orators and used their works as models to develop his own art of reasoning. Therefore, to understand the strategies he applied in his speeches, it is reasonable to briefly look at and analyse certain speeches whose...
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Chapter 5Pro Flacco

Tahin, Gábor

Pages: 75 –86

[Cicero’s defence speech in support of L. Valerius Flaccus against the charges of provincial maladministration had to confront a host of highly damaging direct evidence. To prove the innocence of the defendant, Cicero devised a strategy which is made up of three lines of probabilistic argument,...
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Chapter 6Pro Sulla

Tahin, Gábor

Pages: 87 –100

[Cicero’s defence of Publius Cornelius Sulla may be considered as an example of how an orator can combine three types of heuristic strategies, ‘initial adjustment’, ‘thematic replacement’ and ‘parallel probabilities’ to construct a clear defensive argument for an intricate case embedded in a...
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Chapter 7Pro Murena

Tahin, Gábor

Pages: 101 –112

[The speech in support of L. Licinius Murena was delivered under similar circumstances to the previous one and thus its argument in many respects displays the same strategic features. The theme is electoral bribery, obtaining votes illegally for the consular elections in the comitia centuriata....
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Chapter 8Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino

Tahin, Gábor

Pages: 113 –126

[One of Cicero’s earliest defence speeches, the Oratio pro Sex. Roscio Amerino, gives an excellent example of how the orator can manage to his advantage a complex case which is entirely based on circumstantial evidence and heavily influenced by the political contingencies of the time. In the...
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Chapter 9Pro Milone

Tahin, Gábor

Pages: 127 –143

[One of Cicero’s most famous cases, the defence of T. Annius Milo, allows us to study a very interesting situation where Cicero wrote a model speech after he lost the actual case. Milo was accused of murdering his political arch-enemy, P. Clodius Pulcher, in what seemed to be an accidental...
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Chapter 10Pro Cluentio

Tahin, Gábor

Pages: 145 –168

[Cicero’s longest and most complicated speech presents a highly intricate story involving endless family feuds and murders in order to argue for the relatively simple question of whether the defendant, A. Cluentius Habitus, attempted to murder several people, among them the plaintiff, St. Albius...

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