TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pernot,Laurent
AU  - Higgins,W.E.
TI  - Rhetoric in Antiquity
SN  - 9780813216386
AV  - PA3038 
U1  - 808/.00938 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Washington, D. C.
PB  - Catholic University of America Press
KW  - Rhetoric, Ancient
KW  - Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek -- History and criticism
KW  - Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin -- History and criticism
KW  - Oratory, Ancient
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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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