[publicclassics] New publication

[Borgies Loïc]

Dear Classicists,

I would like to inform the community that my book has been published under
the following title :

Le conflit propagandiste entre Octavien et Marc Antoine. De l'usage
politique de la uituperatio entre 44 et 30 a. C. n., Bruxelles, 2016
(Collection Latomus, n°357).

Abstract:

By blaming each other for obscure and degrading origins, cruelty,
cowardice, oratorical and literary incompetence, debaucheries, luxury,
drunkenness and other slanders, Octavian and Mark Antony, between 44-30 BC,
endeavoured to destroy their respective political foe's reputation in the
eyes of various publics. Unfortunately, until now, invectives have not yet
benefitted from the academic attention they deserve, which is doubly
regrettable as the rhetorical genre of uituperatio is a perfect
illustration for the use of propaganda in Antiquity and helps to contest
the traditional focus put on coinage and poetry. Through its tripartite
structure, the present book offers, for the first time, an encompassing
view of the uituperatio of this period, analysed in turn according to the
rhetorical themes of the invectives, the public concerned, and the forms
and supports by which it is conveyed. It demonstrates that, by its
strenuous and fierce expression, the uituperatio not only became a tool of
war, but also prefigured the ideological basis of the Augustan Principate.

Best regards,

Borgies Loïc

(Université libre de Bruxelles)

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