Knudsen, Rachel Ahern.

Homeric Speech and the Origins of Rhetoric. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (243 pages)

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: RHETORIC IN HOMER -- 1 Reconsidering the Origins of Rhetoric -- 2 Investigating Homeric Rhetoric -- 3 Patterns of Aristotelian Rhetoric in the Iliad -- PART II: THE GENEALOGY OF RHETORIC FROM HOMER TO ARISTOTLE -- 4 Explaining the Correspondence between Homeric Speech and Aristotelian Theory -- 5 Rhetoric in Archaic Poetry -- 6 From Poetry to Theory -- Appendix. Analysis of Remaining Iliadic Rhetorical Speeches -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Z.

In the latter field, it challenges the traditional account of the development of rhetoric, probing the boundaries that currently demarcate its origins, history, and relationship to poetry.

9781421412276


Homer.-Iliad.
Aristotle-Criticism and interpretation.
Rhetoric, Ancient.


Electronic books.

PA4037 .K575 2014

883/.01