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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cicero was the greatest orator of ancient Rome, and one of the founders of the study and practice of rhetoric in the Western tradition. In this course we shall study — and even try to perform! — great masterpieces of Ciceronian rhetoric, as well as his key thoughts on the theory of rhetoric as contained in his writings.