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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade Review"This
Companion contains strong contributions.... Andrew Erskine's excellent chapter on the practical side of Hellenistic rhetoric; and Teresa Moragn manages a broad coverage of rhetoric and education." (
Greece & Rome, 2008)
"Exploring rhetoric from a variety of sociohistorical and thematic contexts from the Homeric to the Byzantine period, this companion sets a standard that should serve the discipline for some years to come." (Choice)
“The editor…has provided us with a fresh overview of important areas…in chapters that bristle with information and insight. The volume has been well edited.” (Bryn Mawr Classical Review)
"A well planned and constructed volume is presented in an equally well-constructed series [Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World]." (Reference Reviews)
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii
Preface: For Readers – and Reviewers x
Notes xii
Abbreviations xiii
Speeches of the Attic Orators xiv
Part I Setting the Scene 1
1 Rhetorical Questions 3
Edward Schiappa and Jim Hamm
2 Modern Interpretations of Classical Greek Rhetoric 16
Takis Poulakos
Part II Rhetoric: A Brief History 25
3 Background and Origins: Oratory and Rhetoric before the Sophists 27
Michael Gagarin
4 Gorgias the Sophist and Early Rhetoric 37
Jeroen A.E. Bons
5 Alcidamas 47
Michael Edwards
6 Isocrates 58
Terry L. Papillon
7 Plato’s Rhetoric 75
Harvey Yunis
8 The Rhetoric to Alexander 90
P. Chiron
9 Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric 107
W.W. Fortenbaugh
10 Hellenistic Rhetoric in Theory and Practice 124
John Vanderspoel
11 The New World Order: Greek Rhetoric in Rome 139
Joy Connolly
12 Rhetoric in Byzantium 166
Elizabeth Jeffreys
Part III Rhetoric and Speeches 185
13 The Parts of the Speech 187
Michael de Brauw
14 Forensic Oratory 203
Craig Cooper
15 Symbouleutic Oratory 220
Stephen Usher
16 Epideictic Oratory 236
Christopher Carey
Part IV Rhetoric: Political, Social and Intellectual Contexts 253
17 Rhetoric and Politics in Classical Greece: Rise of the Rhe¯tores 255
Ian Worthington
18 Rhetoric and Persuasion in the Hellenistic World: Speaking up for the Polis 272
Andrew Erskine
19 Rhetoric and the Law 286
James P. Sickinger
20 Rhetoric and Education 303
Teresa Morgan
21 Rhetoric and Religion 320
Ken Dowden
22 Rhetoric and Language 336
A. Lopez Eire
23 Rhetoric and Logic 350
James Allen
24 Rhetoric and Knowledge 365
Tobias Reinhardt
25 Rhetoric and Ethics from the Sophists to Aristotle 378
Jane M. Day
26 Rhetoric, Manliness and Contest 393
Joseph Roisman
27 Rhetoric and Emotion 411
David Konstan
Part V Rhetoric and Literature 427
28 Right Rhetoric in Homer 429
Hanna M. Roisman
29 Hesiod’s Rhetorical Art 447
Jenny Strauss Clay
30 Acts of Persuasion in Hellenistic Epic: Honey-Sweet Words in Apollonius 458
Anatole Mori
31 Rhetoric and Tragedy: Weapons of Mass Persuasion 473
Marianne McDonald
32 Attic Comedy and the Development of Theoretical Rhetoric 490
Thomas K. Hubbard
33 Rhetoric and Lyric Poetry 509
William H. Race
34 Rhetoric and the Novel: Sex, Lies and Sophistic 526
Ruth Webb
35 Rhetoric and Historiography 542
Matthew Fox and Niall Livingstone
Bibliography 562
Index 594
