ENGLISH

The Orator in Action and Theory in Greece and Rome

By George Alexander , Wooten , Cecil W.; Kennedy

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2001
ISBN
9789004122130, 9004122133
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3241525 bytes)
Series
Mnemosyne Supplements 225
Pages
172\190
Topic
Literature
Time added
2018-08-17 18:43:36
addressesAncient;SpeechesetcGreek -- History and criticism;SpeechesGreek;SpeechesLatinLatin -- History and criticism;SpeechesOratory

Description

This is a collection of original essays, written by authorities in the field, on aspects of ancient rhetoric and oratory ranging from theoretical considerations of rhetorical theory to analysis of actual speeches. How good should an orator be? / Øivind Andersen -- What the laws have prejudged : [Paragrafē] and early issue theory / Edwin Carawan -- The superfluous bag : rhetoric and display in the Histories of Herodotus / Sheile Murnaghan -- Rhetoric, art, and myth : Isocrates and Busiris / Terry L. Papillon -- Julius Caesar, the orator of paradox / A.D. Leeman -- Shifting charge and shifty argument in Cicero's Speech for Sestius / Christopher Craig -- Cicero's Pro Milone / James M. May -- Returning to Tacitus' Dialogus / Michael Winterbottom -- Firgured speeches : "Dionysius," Art of rhetoric, VIII-IX / D.A. Russell

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