Peter Ramus's Attack on Cicero: Text and Translation of Ramus's brutinae Quaestiones

by Petrus Ramus

Cicero had written seven books on rhetoric, but Ramus chose Orator for the attack which had been inevitable since his original denunciation of Cicero's rhetoric in 1543. There are probably two reasons for this. The first is that he was thus able to enter into the widespread controversy over "Ciceronianism." More importantly, this choice enabled him to concentrate on the one Ciceronian work closest to his own personal view of rhetoric. For Ramus,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1880393018
• ISBN13: 9781880393017
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"