Catholic University of America Press, 2005 eISBN: 978-0-8132-1638-6 | Paper: 978-0-8132-1407-8 Library of Congress Classification PA3038.P46 2005 Dewey Decimal Classification 808.00938
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ABOUT THIS BOOK Originally published as La Rhétorique dans l'Antiquité (2000), this new English edition provides students with a valuable introduction to understanding the classical art of rhetoric and its place in ancient society and politics
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Translator's Note
Introduction
First Excursus: Rhetoric of. . .
1. Rhetoric Before "Rhetoric"
Homer
From the Homeric World to the Classical World
2. The Sophistic Revolution
The "First Inventors"
The Sophists
Second Excursus: The Birth of the Word "Rhêtorikê"
3. The Athenian Moment
The Practice of Oratory
The Republic of Orators: Reality and Image
Third Excursus: The Canon of the Ten Attic Orators
Teaching and Theory of Rhetoric
The Philosophical and Moral Problem of Rhetoric
4. The Hellenistic Globalization
Advances in Rhetorical Technique
Philosophies Investigate Rhetoric
The Life of Eloquence in the Greek World
Fourth Excursus: Greek Political Eloquence Did Not Die at Khaironeia
5. The Roman Way and Romanization
The Background of Roman Rhetoric
Stars of Roman Rhetoric before Cicero
The Conquest of Greek Rhetoric
Cicero
Fifth Excursus: Laughter as Weapon
Cicero's Contemporaries
6. The Empire: Innovation in the Tradition
Decline or Renaissance of Rhetoric?
General Characteristics of the Period
Literary Criticism
Archaism and Atticism
Rhetoric, Queen of the Curriculum
Treatises on Theory
The Emperor as Orator
The Practice of Oratory and the Irresistible Rise of the Epideictic Genre
The Roman Orators
The Second Sophistic
Sixth Excursus: Aelius Aristides, by the Grace of Asklepios, Sophist
Rhetoric and Literature
Conclusion: The Heritage of Greco-Roman Rhetoric
The Conversion of Rhetoric
From the End of Antiquity to Modern Times
Greco-Roman Rhetoric Today
Thesaurus: The System of Rhetoric
Chronological Table
Bibliography
Index of Proper Names
Index of Subjects
Index of Greek Words
Index of Latin Words
Index of Citations
Catholic University of America Press, 2005 eISBN: 978-0-8132-1638-6 Paper: 978-0-8132-1407-8
Originally published as La Rhétorique dans l'Antiquité (2000), this new English edition provides students with a valuable introduction to understanding the classical art of rhetoric and its place in ancient society and politics
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Translator's Note
Introduction
First Excursus: Rhetoric of. . .
1. Rhetoric Before "Rhetoric"
Homer
From the Homeric World to the Classical World
2. The Sophistic Revolution
The "First Inventors"
The Sophists
Second Excursus: The Birth of the Word "Rhêtorikê"
3. The Athenian Moment
The Practice of Oratory
The Republic of Orators: Reality and Image
Third Excursus: The Canon of the Ten Attic Orators
Teaching and Theory of Rhetoric
The Philosophical and Moral Problem of Rhetoric
4. The Hellenistic Globalization
Advances in Rhetorical Technique
Philosophies Investigate Rhetoric
The Life of Eloquence in the Greek World
Fourth Excursus: Greek Political Eloquence Did Not Die at Khaironeia
5. The Roman Way and Romanization
The Background of Roman Rhetoric
Stars of Roman Rhetoric before Cicero
The Conquest of Greek Rhetoric
Cicero
Fifth Excursus: Laughter as Weapon
Cicero's Contemporaries
6. The Empire: Innovation in the Tradition
Decline or Renaissance of Rhetoric?
General Characteristics of the Period
Literary Criticism
Archaism and Atticism
Rhetoric, Queen of the Curriculum
Treatises on Theory
The Emperor as Orator
The Practice of Oratory and the Irresistible Rise of the Epideictic Genre
The Roman Orators
The Second Sophistic
Sixth Excursus: Aelius Aristides, by the Grace of Asklepios, Sophist
Rhetoric and Literature
Conclusion: The Heritage of Greco-Roman Rhetoric
The Conversion of Rhetoric
From the End of Antiquity to Modern Times
Greco-Roman Rhetoric Today
Thesaurus: The System of Rhetoric
Chronological Table
Bibliography
Index of Proper Names
Index of Subjects
Index of Greek Words
Index of Latin Words
Index of Citations