The orator in action and theory in Greece and Rome /

The orator in action and theory in Greece and Rome /

This volume is a collection of essays, written by authorities in the field, on many aspects of ancient rhetoric. These essays deal both with the theory of rhetoric and the practice of oratory and are quite diverse both in tone and audience envisioned. Some of them deal with very basic questions such...

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Other Authors: Wooten, Cecil W., 1945-, Kennedy, George A. 1928-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 225.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288.

Subjects:

Oratory, Ancient.
Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek > History and criticism.
Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin > History and criticism.
Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek.
Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Call Number: PA3038 .O73 2001

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • CECIL W. WOOTEN
  • Preface /
  • Cecil W. Wooten
  • Publications of George Alexander Kennedy /
  • CECIL W. WOOTEN
  • The Orator in Theory /
  • CECIL W. WOOTEN
  • How Good Should an Orator Be? /
  • Øivind Andersen
  • What the Laws Have Prejudged: Παραγραϕή and Early Issue-Theory /
  • Edwin Carawan
  • The Orator in Action: Greece /
  • CECIL W. WOOTEN
  • The Superfluous Bag: Rhetoric and Display in the Histories of Herodotus /
  • Sheila Murnaghan
  • Rhetoric, Art, and Myth: Isocrates and Busiris /
  • Terry L. Papillon
  • The Orator in Action: Rome /
  • CECIL W. WOOTEN
  • Julius Caesar, the Orator of Paradox /
  • A.D. Leeman
  • Shifting Charge and Shifty Argument in Cicero's Speech for Sestius /
  • Christopher Craig
  • Cicero's Pro Milone: An Ideal Speech of an Ideal Orator /
  • James M. May
  • The Orator in the Empire /
  • CECIL W. WOOTEN
  • Returning to Tacitus' Dialogus /
  • Michael Winterbottom
  • Figured Speeches: "Dionysius," Art of Rhetoric VIII-IX /
  • D.A. Russell
  • GENERAL INDEX /
  • CECIL W. WOOTEN
  • INDEX LOCORUM /
  • CECIL W. WOOTEN
  • SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE /
  • H. PINKSTER , H.S. VERSNEL , D.M. SCHENKEVELD , P. H. SCHRIJVERS and S.R. SLINGS.