Resumen de Typically unique: shared strategies in Cicero’s "Pro Archia and Pro Balbo"
Cicero claims to use a “new mode of speaking” early in his Pro Archia, a statement which has contributed to a common acceptance of the exceptionality of the speech – particularly its celebration of the liberal arts – in relation to the rest of the Ciceronian corpus. But innovation in ornatus notwithstanding a comparison with Cicero’s other extant speech on citizenship, the Pro Balbo, reveals that the type and arrangement of arguments within the Pro Archia (the inventio and dispositio), including Cicero’s use of encomium, can be and are repeated on behalf of a defendant with no connection to poetry. This repetition implies that Cicero’s approach to the defense in Pro Archia is not unique, but is, like other Ciceronian oratory, fundamentally influenced by the charge against his client.
