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Rhetoric and Power : the drama of classical Greece /

Through Rhetoric and Power, Nathan Crick dramatizes the history of rhetoric by explaining its origin and development in Classical Greece beginning the oral displays of Homeric eloquence in a time of kings following its ascent to power during the age of Pericles and the Sophists, and ending with its...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Crick, Nathan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, 2014.
Series:Studies in rhetoric/communication.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Homer's Iliad and the epic tradition of heroic eloquence
  • Heraclitus and the revelation of logos
  • Aeschylus's Persians and the birth of tragedy
  • Protagoras and the promise of politics
  • Gorgias's Helen and the powers of action and fabrication
  • Thucydides and the political history of power
  • Aristophanes's Birds and the corrective of comedy
  • Plato's Protagoras and the art of tragicomedy
  • Isocrates's "Nicocles" and the hymn to hegemony
  • Aristotle on rhetoric and civilization.