Courtroom rhetoric in imperial and late antique philosophical dialogues
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La Valle, Dawn Teresa. (2023). Courtroom rhetoric in imperial and late antique philosophical dialogues. In In Jolowicz, Daniel and Elsner, Jaś (Ed.). Articulating Resistance under the Roman Empire pp. 51 Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108753425.003
Authors | La Valle, Dawn Teresa |
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Editors | Jolowicz, Daniel and Elsner, Jaś |
Abstract | Because dialogue represents philosophy happening in the context of interpersonal relationships, it is a natural place to investigate power dynamics, both displays of power and displays of resistance. But in literature, unlike in life, the power dynamics are completely within the control of one person, the author, who can script the situation as he chooses. In this chapter, I argue that there was a change in the rules of comportment found in literary dialogues between the first and fourth centuries CE that can be traced through paying close attention first to the appearance and then to the development of a new character in these discussions – a judge. A shared embrace of forensic rhetoric to express philosophical antagonism existed across changing modes of judgement in the Roman Empire. I argue that this forensic dialogic mode was introduced as a mode of sublimation of political energy, as a rerouting of resistance into a safer domain of scholastic antagonism. |
Keywords | dialogue; judges; courtroom; forensic rhetoric; Dialogue of Adamantius; Minucius Felix ; Methodius of Olympus; Plutarch of Chaeronea; Tacitus’ Dialogus |
Page range | 51 |
70 | |
Year | 01 Jan 2023 |
Book title | Articulating Resistance under the Roman Empire |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
ISBN | 978-1-108-48490-9 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108753425.003 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/articulating-resistance-under-the-roman-empire/courtroom-rhetoric-in-imperial-and-late-antique-philosophical-dialogues/D629979BF34581FE82D3EF2F18D6AF88 |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 23 Dec 2022 |
2023 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 10 May 2024 |
Additional information | © Cambridge University Press & Assessment 2023 |
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