Screen LibraryA companion to Greek rhetoric
This complete guide to ancient Greek rhetoric is exceptional both in its chronological range and the breadth of topics it covers. Traces the rise of rhetoric and its uses from Homer to Byzantium. Covers wider-ranging topics such as rhetoric's relationship to knowledge, ethics, religion, law, an...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470997161 |
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This complete guide to ancient Greek rhetoric is exceptional both in its chronological range and the breadth of topics it covers. Traces the rise of rhetoric and its uses from Homer to Byzantium. Covers wider-ranging topics such as rhetoric's relationship to knowledge, ethics, religion, law, and emotion. Incorporates new material giving us fresh insights into how the Greeks saw and used rhetoric. Discusses the idea of rhetoric and examines the status of rhetoric studies, present and future. All quotations from ancient sources are translated into English. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xvi, 616 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 562-593) and index. |
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1405171936 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader) 9781405171939 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader) 9781405165570 (electronic bk.) 140516557X (electronic bk.) 9780470997161 0470997168 |
| Access: | University staff and students only. Requires University Computer Account login on and off-campus. |
| Index Number: | PA3265 |
| CLC: | I545.06 |
| Contents: | Rhetorical questions / Edward Schiappa and Jim Hamm -- Modern interpretations of classical Greek rhetoric / Takis Poulakos -- Background and origins : oratory and rhetoric before the sophists / Michael Gagarin -- Gorgias the Sophist and early rhetoric / Jeroen A.E. Bons -- Alcidamas / Michael Edwards -- Isocrates / Terry L. Papillon -- Plato's rhetoric / Harvey Yunis -- The Rhetoric to Alexander / P. Chiron -- Aristotle's Art of rhetoric / W.W. Fortenbaugh -- Hellenistic rhetoric in theory and practice / John Vanderspoel -- The new world order : Greek rhetoric in Rome / Joy Connolly -- Rhetoric in Byzantium / Elizabeth Jeffreys -- The parts of the speech / Michael de Brauw -- Forensic oratory / Craig Cooper -- Symbouleuctic oratory / Stephen Usher -- Epideictic oratory / Christopher Carey -- Rhetoric and politics in classical Greece : rise of the rhetores / Ian Worthington -- Rhetoric and persuasion in the Hellenistic world : speaking up for the polis / Andrew Erskine -- Rhetoric and the law / James P. Sickinger -- Rhetoric and education / Teresa Morgan -- Rhetoric and religion / Ken Dowden -- Rhetoric and language / A. Lopez Eire -- Rhetoric and logic / James Allen -- Rhetoric and knowledge / Tobias Reinhardt -- Rhetoric and ethics from the sophists to Aristotle / Jane M. Day -- Rhetoric, manliness and contest / Joseph Roisman -- Rhetoric and emotion / David Konstan -- Right rhetoric in Homer / Hanna M. Roisman -- Hesoid's rhetorical art / Jenny Strauss Clay -- Acts of persuasion in Hellenistic epic : honey-sweet words in Apollonious / Anatole Mori -- Rhetoric and tragedy : weapons of mass persuasion / Marianne McDonald -- Attic comedy and the development of theoretical rhetoric / Thomas K. Hubbard -- Rhetoric and lyric poetry / William H. Race -- Rhetoric and the novel : sex, lies, and sophistic / Ruth Webb -- Rhetoric and historiography / Matthew Fox and Niall Livingstone. |