A Companion to Greek Rhetoric - Worthington, Ian

Ian Worthington 

A Companion to Greek Rhetoric

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A 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, 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

Produktinformation
  • Verlag: Wiley & Sons
  • 2010
  • 1. Auflage
  • Ausstattung/Bilder: 1. Auflage. 2009. 632 S. 248 mm
  • Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
  • Best.Nr. des Verlages: 1A444334140
  • Englisch
  • Abmessung: 37mm x 172mm x 247mm
  • Gewicht: 1102g
  • ISBN-13: 9781444334142
  • ISBN-10: 144433414X
  • Best.Nr.: 28707753
Ian Worthington is Frederick A. Middlebush Professor of History at the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA. His previous publications include Demosthenes: Statesman and Orator (2000), Alexander the Great: A Reader (2003), and a biography, Alexander the Great: Man and God (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors
Preface: For Readers -- and Reviewers
Notes
Abbreviations
Speeches of the Attic Orators
Part I: Setting the Scene
Part II: Rhetoric: A Brief History
Part III: Rhetoric and Speeches
Part IV: Rhetoric: Political, Social and Intellectual Contexts
Part V: Rhetoric and Literature
Bibliography
Index
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