Summary
George Kennedy: History of Ancient Rhetoric
"History of Ancient Rhetoric" is a synthesis of years of dealing with ancient rhetoric by a renowned American rhetoric expert and professor of classical philology, comparative literature and rhetoric at the University of North Carolina (USA). It is among the best manuals for ancient rhetoric that currently exist globally. In addition to the preface, the work consists of thirteen chapters, which present all important authors, works, phenomena and processes in ancient rhetoric in chronological order. In the book, the complex and polyvalent phenomenon of rhetoric is equally illuminated from the historical and theoretical side, its oratorical, political, judicial and panegyric sides are presented, as well as its literary, stylistic, literary theoretical and literary critical dimensions, the antagonism and interaction of philosophy and rhetoric is clarified, as well as the prominent place of rhetoric in the ancient system of education. "The History of Ancient Rhetoric" is an indispensable work for anyone who deals with ancient rhetoric and literature, but also Greek and Roman culture in a broader sense.
CONTENTS:
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
CHAPTER I
Introduction: The Nature of Rhetoric
CHAPTER II
Persuasion in Hellenic Literature
pre 400th year BC
CHAPTER III
Greek rhetorical theory
from Corax to Aristotle
CHAPTER IV
Attic orators
CHAPTER V
Hellenistic rhetoric
CHAPTER VI
Early Roman rhetoric
VII CHAPTER
Cicero
CHAPTER VIII
Roman Rhetoric in the Age of Augustus
CHAPTER IX
Latin Rhetoric of the Silver Age
CHAPTER X
Hellenic Rhetoric in the Roman Empire
CHAPTER XI
The Second Sophistic
XII CHAPTER
Christianity and Classical Rhetoric
CHAPTER XIII
Survival of Ancient Rhetoric from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX OF NAMES AND TERMS
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