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Subject(s)

• Rhetoric, Ancient [Browse]
• Classical literature—History and criticism—Theory, etc [Browse]

Related name

• Katula, Richard A. [Browse]
• Hoppmann, Michael J. [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Theories of rhetoric. The origins of rhetoric in the democracy of Ancient Greece
• Rhetorical consciousness and the rise of the Sophists
• Aristotle's rhetorical theory
• From Greek to "Roman" rhetoric, with synopses of three pragmatic handbooks
• The rhetorical theory of the mature Cicero, with synopses of his major rhetorical works
• Quintilian's place in Roman rhetorical and educational theory, with a synopsis of his Institutio Oratorio
• Epilogue: what happened next?
• Orations for pleasure and practice. Pericles, The Funeral Oration
• Lysias, On the Refusal of a Pension to the Invalid
• Plato, The Apology of Socrates
• Gorgias, Encomium to Helen
• Demosthenes, The First Philippic
• Cicero, The First Speech Against Lucius Sergius Catiline.

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ISBN

• 9780415532419 (Paperback : acid-free paper)
• 0415532418 (Paperback : acid-free paper)
• 9780415532402 (Hardback : acid-free paper)
• 041553240X (Hardback : acid-free paper)

LCCN

2013000536

OCLC

768171511

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