Cicero's Accretive Style: Rhetorical Strategies in the Exordia of the Judicial Speeches

by Steven M. Cerutti

Cicero's Accretive Style is a book about the nature of the Ciceronian exordium and its rhetorical structure and function. Through a sentence-by-sentence stylistic analysis of the exordia of a selection of Cicero's judicial speeches, this book explores how Cicero uses a variety of rhetorical strategies to fulfill the aims of the exordium as he himself defined them.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761804382
• ISBN13: 9780761804383
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"