Advice and its Rhetoric in Greece and Rome.

Gutes Exemplar. - Englisch. - Substantially, the essays in this collection formed part of the 2000 meeting of the Midlands Classics Colloquium, held on that occasion in Nottingham. We are sad to say that Thomas Wiedemann's contribution on the consilium principis, though a highlight of the day, could not be recovered to be included in this volume. The essays by Desmond Costa and Gideon Nisbet, as well as our own essay, are additions to the original conference essays - we hope that they help to illuminate different facets of our subject. At its most basic, advice is the help that a friend or comrade gives - a gesture that saves one from acting, and also from feeling, alone. This, surely, is Diomedes' point when asking for someone to come with him on his nocturnal expedition: If another comrade would escort me though, there'd be more comfort in it, confidence too. When two work side by side, one or the other spots the opening first if a kill's at hand. When one looks out for himself, alert but alone, his reach is shorter - his sly moves miss the mark. (Homer Iliad 10.224-226). It is settled that Odysseus will go with him, and so Diomedes achieves both the comfort he asks for and the practical benefits to be had from being part of a pair. He also now has as his partner one of the Iliad's best advisers - and the added bonus of Athena, an even greater Homeric adviser. There are, of course, many more public roles for advice or counsel in the Iliad itself: the process of making plans and taking decisions - of boule in the broadest sense - is central to the poem. And the giving and the receiving of good counsel, both in assemblies and between friends, seem to be as much part of the world of the Iliad as the relentless pursuit of glory in warfare. . (Vorwort der Herausgeberinnen). - INHALT : Notes on Contributors --- List of illustrations --- Introduction --- DIANA SPENCER and ELENA THEODORAKOPOULOS --- 'Good men who have skill in speaking': performing advice in Rome DIANA SPENCER and ELENA THEODORAKOPOULOS --- On the receiving end: the hidden protagonist of Plato's Laches ANDREW BARKER --- Advice and Advisers in Xenophon's Anabasis TIM ROOD --- Consul and consilium: suppressing the Catilinarian conspiracy CATHERINE STEEL --- Telling it like it is: Seneca, Alexander and the dynamics of epistolary advice DIANA SPENCER --- Advice from on high - Pliny and Trajan ANDY FEAR --- Dio Chrysostom and the development of On Kingship literature HARRY SIDEBOTTOM --- 'That's not funny': advice in skoptic epigram GIDEON NISBET --- Afterword: giving advice in Greek letters DESMOND COSTA --- Bibliography Index. ISBN 9788879494397