A Companion to Greek Rhetoric
by Ian Worthington (Editor)
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This complete guide to ancient Greek rhetoric is exceptional both in its chronological range and the breadth of topics it covers. Traces the rise of rhetoric and its uses from Homer to Byzantium. Covers wider-ranging topics such as rhetoric's relationship to knowledge, ethics, religion, law, and emotion. Incorporates new material giving us fresh insights into how the Greeks saw and used rhetoric. Discusses the idea of rhetoric and examines the status of rhetoric studies, present and future. show more All quotations from ancient sources are translated into English. show lessTags
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Ian Worthington is Curators' Professor of History and Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Missouri. He is the author of numerous books about ancient Greece, including, most recently, Demosthenes of Athens and the Fall of Classical Greece and Ptolemy I: King and Pharaoh of Egypt.
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- A Companion to Greek Rhetoric
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- Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism, Philosophy
- DDC/MDS
- 808.0481 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Composition Rhetoric and anthologies Handbooks for writers Greek and other Classical languages
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- PA3265 .C66 — Language and Literature Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature Greek literature Literary history
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