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The shape of Herodotean rhetoric : a study of the speeches in Herodotus' Histories with special attention to books 5-9 /
In The Shape of Herodotean Rhetoric, Vasiliki Zali offers a fresh assessment of Herodotus' rhetorical awareness. Zali explores the ways in which the speeches in Herodotus' final five books emphasize the fragility of Greek unity and the problematic Greco-Persian polarity.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2014.
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| Colección: | International studies in the history of rhetoric ;
volume 6. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Note on Text and Translations; Introduction; Part 1 Architectonics of Speech; Chapter 1 Allocation of Speech; 1.1 Modes of Analysis; 1.2 Greek vs. Greeks; 1.3 Speech and Power/Authority; 1.4 Greeks vs. Persians; Part 2 Speech and Competition; Chapter 2 Debates; 2.1 General Observations; 2.2 Language; 2.3 On the Cusp between Homer and Thucydides; 2.4 Test Cases; Part 3 Speech and Typology; Chapter 3 Alliance Speeches; 3.1 Literary Tradition and Early Rhetorical Handbooks; 3.2 Alliance Motifs in Herodotus; 3.3 Test Cases.
- 3.4 Persian Alliances: An OverviewChapter 4 Pre-Battle Speeches; 4.1 The Genre of Pre-Battle Exhortation; 4.2 Exhortation and Exhortatory Motifs in Literature and Rhetoric; 4.3 Herodotean Harangues; 4.4 Function of Exhortations: Case Studies; 4.5 Harangues and Herodotean Narrative; Conclusion; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Bibliography; Index of Passages Cited; General Index.