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La pro Milone dopo la pro Milone
2010
Per quanto destinata a soccombere sotto un plateale insuccesso, l’orazione pro Milone di Cicerone gode di una straordinaria fortuna nella tradizione seriore. Il contributo puntualizza le ragioni e le tappe di tale successo ‘a posteriori’, conferendo una particolare importanza all’opera di Quintiliano. Nella Institutio oratoria, infatti, si assiste ad una copiosa messe di citazioni del testo ciceroniano; esse, peraltro, appaiono tutte adoperate in contesti di particolare rilievo, ove il retore di età flavia si trovi a commentare la necessità di certi cambi di strategia argomentativa o, ancora, la proficuità di un uso multiplo della dottrina degli status, di cui Cicerone dà prova nella tracta…
Legittima difesa, tirannicidio e strategia difensiva nell’orazione di Cicerone a favore di Milone
2013
This paper presents a new analysis of the speech delivered by Cicero on behalf of Milo (pro Milone), who had been charged with the murder of Clodius. It suggests that Cicero’s defensive strategy aimed from the beginning to get an acquittal on two different grounds. The first one was based on the reasoning that Clodius’ murder was committed lawfully in self-defense. The second one was based on the argument that Clodius’ killing was in the best interest of the state. Both do not have to be conflicting. Even if the spoken version of the speech achieved just the first aim, the second aim, prevented by the interruption of Cicero’s speech due to the screams of the Clodian mob present at the trial…
Apparizioni, fantasmi e altre 'ombre' in morte e resurrezione dello Stato. Fictio, allegoria e strategie oratorie nella pro Milone di Cicerone
2012
The case of the Pro Milone is perhaps one the most successful examples of the Ciceronian literary writing. Due to the critical situation of the res publica, this text achieves a high level of formal perfection: a dense web of allegories and allegorical personifications has therefore a leading role in the oration, condemning the wicked behaviour of Clodius, whose corpse is still shaking the State, and encouraging Republican institutions to resistance. In this respect, the strategic use of personification enables the orator to evoke on the trial ‘stage’ various places: from the Appian Way to the mountains and woods made by Clodius protagonists, rather than locations, of his misdeeds. Similarl…