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...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Columbia, South Carolina :
The University of South Carolina Press,
2014.
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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.