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History of Rhetoric, Volume I : The Art of Persuasion in Greece /

A concern for the art of persuasion, as rhetoric was anciently defined, was a principal feature of Greek intellectual life. In this study of the complex of subjects labeled "rhetoric," the author explores rhetorical theory and practice from the fifth to the first centuries B.C. Beginning w...

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Autor principal: Kennedy, George A. (George Alexander), 1928-2022
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1963.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: the nature of rhetoric
  • Techniques of persuasion in Greek literature before 400 B.C.
  • Early rhetorical theory, Corax to Aristotle. Corax and Tisias ; Gorgias ; Thrasymachus ; Other rhetoricians ; Isocrates ; Plato's Phaedrus ; Theodectes ; The development of Aristotle's Rhetoric ; Aristotle on invention ; The third book of Aristotle's Rhetoric ; The Rhetorica ad Alexandrum
  • The Attic orators. Judicial Oratory. Antiphon, Lysias, Isaeus, Andocides, Trial of Socrates ; Epideictic oratory. Funeral orations, Festival orations, Sophistic oratory, Isocrates ; Deliberative oratory ; Demosthenes ; Aeschines ; The lesser orators of the later fourth century. Apollodorus, Lycurgus, Hyperides, Dinarchus
  • Hellenistic rhetoric to the arrival in Rome of Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Theophrastus ; Demetrius ; The stoics ; Other philosophical schools ; Asianism ; Hermagoras ; The quarrel between rhetoric and philosophy ; Atticism
  • Appendix: The introduction to On the ancient orators by Dionysius of Halicarnassus.