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A concern for the art of persuasion, as rhetoric was anciently defined, was a principal feature of Greek intellectual life. In this study of the complex of subjects labeled "rhetoric," the author explores rhetorical theory and practice from the fifth to the first centuries B.C. Beginning with the creative rhetoric of the pre-Socratic era, the study



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*Frontmatter, pg. i*Foreword, pg. v*Contents, pg. vii*Abbreviations, pg. ix*Chapter One. Introduction: The Nature of Rhetoric, pg. 1*Chapter Two. Techniques of Persuasion in Greek Literature before 400 B.C., pg. 26*Chapter Three. Early Rhetorical Theory, Corax to Aristotle, pg. 52*Chapter Four. The Attic Orators, pg. 125*Chapter Five. Hellenistic Rhetoric to the Arrival in Rome of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, pg. 264*Appendix. The Introduction to "On the ancient orators" by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, pg. 337*Index, pg. 341

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 08/12/2015
      ISBN13: 9780691625324, 978-0691625324
      ISBN10: 0691625328

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A concern for the art of persuasion, as rhetoric was anciently defined, was a principal feature of Greek intellectual life. In this study of the complex of subjects labeled "rhetoric," the author explores rhetorical theory and practice from the fifth to the first centuries B.C. Beginning with the creative rhetoric of the pre-Socratic era, the study



      Table of Contents
      *Frontmatter, pg. i*Foreword, pg. v*Contents, pg. vii*Abbreviations, pg. ix*Chapter One. Introduction: The Nature of Rhetoric, pg. 1*Chapter Two. Techniques of Persuasion in Greek Literature before 400 B.C., pg. 26*Chapter Three. Early Rhetorical Theory, Corax to Aristotle, pg. 52*Chapter Four. The Attic Orators, pg. 125*Chapter Five. Hellenistic Rhetoric to the Arrival in Rome of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, pg. 264*Appendix. The Introduction to "On the ancient orators" by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, pg. 337*Index, pg. 341

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