The genres of rhetorical speeches in Greek and Roman antiquity /

In The Genres of Rhetorical Speeches in Greek and Roman Antiquity , Cristina Pepe offers a complete overview of the concept of speech genre within ancient rhetoric. By analyzing sources dating from the 5th-4th century BC, the author proves that the well-known classification in three rhetorical genre...

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Main Author: Pepe, Cristina.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Series: International Studies in the History of Rhetoric 5.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2014, ISBN: 9789004262430.

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Call Number: PA181 .P47 2013

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One The Practice of Oratory in Classical Greece
  • Chapter Two The Sophists and the Forms of λόγος
  • Chapter Three Thucydides. The Assembly and Democratic Deliberation
  • Chapter Four Plato
  • Chapter Five Isocrates
  • Chapter Six Demosthenes
  • Chapter Seven The Rhetoric to Alexander
  • Chapter Eight Aristotle's Rhetoric
  • Chapter Nine The Concept of Genre in Aristotle
  • Chapter Ten The Three Genres of Rhetoric: Definition and Classification
  • Chapter Eleven Characterizing the Genres: Principles and Models
  • Chapter Twelve Genres and Topics
  • Chapter Thirteen The Style (λέξις) and Arrangement (τάξις) of the Genres
  • Chapter Fourteen Divisiones Aristoteleae
  • Chapter Fifteen Oratorical Practice
  • Chapter Sixteen The Success of the Aristotelian Classification
  • Chapter Seventeen The Debate on the Scheme's Validity: Problems and Solutions
  • Chapter Eighteen The Theory of Genres in the Rhetorical System
  • Chapter Nineteen Classifying, Describing, Interpreting Speeches
  • Chapter Twenty Rhetorical Genres and Pedagogical Practices
  • Conclusion
  • Testimonia
  • Appendix. Speech Genres in Contemporary Rhetorical Theory
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Greek and Latin Terms
  • Index Locorum
  • General Index.