It takes the average reader 6 hours and 42 minutes to read The Voices of the Consul by Brian A. Krostenko
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"This book probes the ideology of De lege agraria I and II, Cicero's first two speeches as consul, delivered to the senate and the people respectively. The book propounds and applies a model of applied discourse analysis to draw out the implicit ideology of the speeches. Thus analyzed, the speeches reveal distinctive visions of dignitas and libertas, cardinal values of each audience. Those visions make clear Cicero's artful self-fashioning, negotiating the complex cross-currents of late Republican politics, and they make clear as well the depth of his rhetorical art, which draws constantly upon unnamed points of reference, the physical environment, and varied social roles to situate his claims within the psychic imaginary of his audiences. The book thus makes it possible to see that apparent screeds against an agrarian law are thoroughgoing political manifestos-appropriate for the first speeches of a consul"--
The Voices of the Consul by Brian A. Krostenko is 401 pages long, and a total of 100,651 words.
This makes it 135% the length of the average book. It also has 123% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 10 minutes to read The Voices of the Consul aloud.
The Voices of the Consul is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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