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Rhetoric in Antiquity.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington, D. C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (287 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813216386
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rhetoric in AntiquityDDC classification:
  • 808/.00938
LOC classification:
  • PA3038
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Translator's Note -- Introduction -- First Excursus: Rhetoric of ... -- 1. Rhetoric before "Rhetoric" -- Homer -- From the Homeric World to the Classical World -- 2. The Sophistic Revolution -- The "First Inventors" -- The Sophists -- Gorgias -- Second Excursus: The Birth of the Word Rhetorike -- 3. The Athenian Moment -- The Practice of Oratory -- The Republic of the Orators: Reality and Image -- Third Excursus: The Canon of the Ten Attic Orators -- Teaching and Theory of Rhetoric -- The Philosophical and Moral Problem of Rhetoric -- 4. The Hellenistic Globalization -- Advances in Rhetorical Technique -- Philosophies Investigate Rhetoric -- The Life of Eloquence in the Greek World -- Fourth Excursus: Greek Political Eloquence Did Not Die at Khaironeia -- 5. The Roman Way and Romanization -- The Background of Roman Rhetoric -- Stars of Roman Rhetoric before Cicero -- The Conquest of Greek Rhetoric -- Cicero -- Fifth Excursus: Laughter as Weapon -- Cicero's Contemporaries -- 6. The Empire: Innovation in the Tradition -- Decline or Renaissance of Rhetoric? -- General Characteristics of the Period -- Literary Criticism -- Archaism and Atticism -- Rhetoric, Queen of the Curriculum -- Treatises on Theory -- The Emperor as Orator -- The Practice of Oratory and the Irresistible Rise of the Epideictic Genre -- The Roman Orators -- The Second Sophistic -- Sixth Excursus: Aelius Aristides, Sophist by the Grace of Asklepios -- Rhetoric and Literature -- Conclusion: The Heritage of Greco-Roman Rhetoric -- The Conversion of Rhetoric -- From the End of Antiquity to Modern Times -- Greco-Roman Rhetoric Today -- Thesaurus: The System of Rhetoric -- Chronological Table -- Bibliography -- Index of Proper Names -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Greek Words -- Index of Latin Words.
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Intro -- Contents -- Translator's Note -- Introduction -- First Excursus: Rhetoric of ... -- 1. Rhetoric before "Rhetoric" -- Homer -- From the Homeric World to the Classical World -- 2. The Sophistic Revolution -- The "First Inventors" -- The Sophists -- Gorgias -- Second Excursus: The Birth of the Word Rhetorike -- 3. The Athenian Moment -- The Practice of Oratory -- The Republic of the Orators: Reality and Image -- Third Excursus: The Canon of the Ten Attic Orators -- Teaching and Theory of Rhetoric -- The Philosophical and Moral Problem of Rhetoric -- 4. The Hellenistic Globalization -- Advances in Rhetorical Technique -- Philosophies Investigate Rhetoric -- The Life of Eloquence in the Greek World -- Fourth Excursus: Greek Political Eloquence Did Not Die at Khaironeia -- 5. The Roman Way and Romanization -- The Background of Roman Rhetoric -- Stars of Roman Rhetoric before Cicero -- The Conquest of Greek Rhetoric -- Cicero -- Fifth Excursus: Laughter as Weapon -- Cicero's Contemporaries -- 6. The Empire: Innovation in the Tradition -- Decline or Renaissance of Rhetoric? -- General Characteristics of the Period -- Literary Criticism -- Archaism and Atticism -- Rhetoric, Queen of the Curriculum -- Treatises on Theory -- The Emperor as Orator -- The Practice of Oratory and the Irresistible Rise of the Epideictic Genre -- The Roman Orators -- The Second Sophistic -- Sixth Excursus: Aelius Aristides, Sophist by the Grace of Asklepios -- Rhetoric and Literature -- Conclusion: The Heritage of Greco-Roman Rhetoric -- The Conversion of Rhetoric -- From the End of Antiquity to Modern Times -- Greco-Roman Rhetoric Today -- Thesaurus: The System of Rhetoric -- Chronological Table -- Bibliography -- Index of Proper Names -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Greek Words -- Index of Latin Words.

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