Optimus orator, perfecte eloquens

Zu Ciceros formalem Rednerideal und seiner Nachwirkung

Cicero forms a two-sided model of the ideal orator, one based on the three officia and the other on the three styles. St. Augustine combines both sides into his orator with three styles. Hrabanus Maurus and Roger Bacon make use of both models. These rules are used as precepts for judging the quality...

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Author:Franz Quadelbauer
Published: S.n., s.l., 1984
Volume:2
Pages:103-119
Periodical:Rhetorica
Number:2
Format:Article
Topic:- Biography > Relations and Sources > Platonism - Neo-platonism > Platonism of Varro, Cicero and Virgil > Cicero
- Biography > Relations and Sources > Platonism - Neo-platonism > Platonism of Varro, Cicero and Virgil > Virgil
- Works > Augustine writer > Rhetoric. Dialectic > Rhetoric (persona)
- Influence and Survival > The Middle Ages (430-1453) > Influence on the various authors and writings > [Bacon (Roger) (vers 1220-après 1292)]
- Influence and Survival > The Middle Ages (430-1453) > Influence on the various authors and writings > [Raban Maur]
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Summary:Cicero forms a two-sided model of the ideal orator, one based on the three officia and the other on the three styles. St. Augustine combines both sides into his orator with three styles. Hrabanus Maurus and Roger Bacon make use of both models. These rules are used as precepts for judging the quality of poets also, based on which three precepts Vergil has been considered the master of the three styles of writing through the centuries.