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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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
- 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.