Rhetoric Before and Beyond the Greeks.

Intro -- Rhetoric before and beyond the Greeks -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Birth of Rhetoric by William W. Hallo -- The Rhetoric of Origins and the Other: Reading the Ancient Figure of Enheduanna by Roberta Binkley -- Neo-Assyrian Rhetoric: The Example of the Third Campaign of Sennacherib (704-681 B.C.) by Paul Y. Hoskisson and Grant M. Boswell -- Ancient Egyptian Rhetoric: It All Comes Down to Maat by Carol S. Lipson -- Law, Rhetoric, and Gender in Ramesside Egypt by Deborah Sweeney -- The Use of Eloquence: The Confucian Perspective by George Q. Xu -- Confucian Silence and Remonstration: A Basis for Deliberation? by Arabella Lyon -- "Nothing Can Be Accomplished If the Speech Does Not Sound Agreeable": Rhetoric and the Invention of Classical Chinese Discourse by Yameng Liu -- Pentateuchal Rhetoric and the Voice of the Aaronides by David Metzger -- The Art of Rhetoric at Rhodes: An Eastern Rival to the Athenian Representation of Classical Rhetoric by Richard Leo Enos -- Story-List-Sanction: A Cross-Cultural Strategy of Ancient Persuasion by James W. Watts -- Song to Speech: The Origins of Early Epitaphia in Ancient Near Eastern Women's Lamentations by C. Jan Swearingen -- Suggestions for Teaching Ancient Rhetorics -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

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