De Optimo Genere Oratorum
On the Best Kind of Orators
Author
Language
Year
46 BCE
Country
Roman Republic
Genre
Nonfiction / Essays / Treatise
graeco-roman
roman republic
rhetoric
De Optimo Genere Oratorum, "On the Best Kind of Orators", is a work from Marcus Tullius Cicero written in 46 BCE between two of his other works, Brutus and the Orator ad M. Brutum. Cicero attempts to explain why his view of oratorical style reflects true Atticism and is better than that of the Roman Atticists "who would confine the orator to the simplicity and artlessness of the early Attic orators."Wikipedia →
