Making a New Man

Cicero (106-43 BCE) is known as Rome's greatest orator, which was precisely his plan. This book shows how Cicero used culturally ambitious works on the nature and history of oratory to fashion his identity as the supreme Roman public speaker and stylist. John Dugan reveals how Cicero uses his famous powers of persuasion to write himself into Roman cultural history and canonize his style as the supreme accomplishment of Roman prose literature.