Cicero and the Lion’s Roar: An Examination of Churchill’s Use of Ciceronian Rhetoric to Justify WWII and Motivate the Allies
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2014-09-16
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Both Cicero and Winston Churchill are considered titans of rhetoric, but only once before have the
two been put into scholarly dialogue with one another. Sir Harold Nicolson and his friends sat
down to determine whether or not Churchill lived up to the standards set by Cicero in his De
Oratore. I intend to expand upon this article to make a more detailed and accurate comparison
between the two, and I will show that Churchill was indeed a Ciceronian orator. In order to
demonstrate this point, I will draw from the two authors’ speeches and their other works in which
they discuss their process and philosophy.