{"product_id":"that-tyrant-persuasion-how-rhetoric-shaped-the-roman-world-9780691221014","title":"That Tyrant, Persuasion: How Rhetoric Shaped the Roman World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow rhetorical training influenced deeds as well as words in the Roman Empire\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe assassins of Julius Caesar cried out that they had killed a tyrant, and days later their colleagues in the Senate proposed rewards for this act of tyrannicide. The killers and their supporters spoke as if they were following a well-known script. They were. Their education was chiefly in rhetoric and as boys they would all have heard and given speeches on a ubiquitous set of themes--including one asserting that \"he who kills a tyrant shall receive a reward from the city.\" In \u003ci\u003eThat Tyrant, Persuasion\u003c\/i\u003e, J. E. Lendon explores how rhetorical education in the Roman world influenced not only the words of literature but also momentous deeds: the killing of Julius Caesar, what civic buildings and monuments were built, what laws were made, and, ultimately, how the empire itself should be run. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePresenting a new account of Roman rhetorical education and its surprising practical consequences, \u003ci\u003eThat Tyrant, Persuasion\u003c\/i\u003e shows how rhetoric created a grandiose imaginary world for the Roman ruling elite--and how they struggled to force the real world to conform to it. Without rhetorical education, the Roman world would have been unimaginably different.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ. E. Lendon\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eSong of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSoldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Honour: The Art of Government in the Roman World\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50869735489810,"sku":"9780691221014","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4f34da82-e205-4eed-bec7-864138ae90cd.jpg?v=1737767768","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/that-tyrant-persuasion-how-rhetoric-shaped-the-roman-world-9780691221014","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}