Table Of Content

Cover Page: cover Title Page Page: iii Copyright Page: iv Dedication Page: v Contents Page: vii Preface Page: xi Chapter One Page: 3 Introduction: The Nature of Rhetoric Page: 3 Chapter Two Page: 11 Persuasion in Greek Literature before 400 B.C. Page: 11 Chapter Three Page: 30 Greek Rhetorical Theory from Corax to Aristotle Page: 30 Plato’s Gorgias Page: 34 Plato’s Phaedrus Page: 38 Isocrates Page: 42 The Rhetoric for Alexander Page: 48 Aristotle Page: 50 Chapter Four Page: 64 The Attic Orators Page: 64 Lysias Page: 65 Demosthenes Page: 68 Chapter Five Page: 81 Hellenistic Rhetoric Page: 81 Theophrastus Page: 84 Later Peripatetics Page: 87 Demetrius, On Style Page: 88 The Stoics Page: 90 The Academics Page: 93 The Epicureans Page: 93 Asianism Page: 95 Hermagoras and Stasis Theory Page: 96 Chapter Six Page: 102 Early Roman Rhetoric Page: 102 Cato the Elder Page: 106 Roman Orators of the Late Second and Early First Centuries B.C. Page: 111 Latin Rhetoricians Page: 115 Cicero’s On Invention Page: 117 The Rhetoric for Herennius Page: 121 Chapter Seven Page: 128 Cicero Page: 128 Cicero’s Orations in the Years from 81 to 56 B.C. Page: 129 On the Orator Page: 142 For Milo and Cicero’s Later Speeches Page: 149 Brutus and Orator Page: 153 Chapter Eight Page: 159 Rhetoric in Augustan Rome Page: 159 Greek Rhetoricians of the Second Half of the First Century B.C. Page: 160 Dionysius of Halicarnassus Page: 161 Declamation and Seneca the Elder Page: 165 Chapter Nine Page: 173 Latin Rhetoric in the Silver Age Page: 173 Quintilian Page: 177 Discussions of the “Decline of Eloquence” Page: 186 Pliny the Younger Page: 192 Fronto and Gellius Page: 196 Apuleius Page: 199 Chapter Ten Page: 201 Greek Rhetoric under the Roman Empire Page: 201 Progymnasmata Page: 202 Hermogenes and the Formation of the Hermogenic Corpus Page: 208 Prolegomena Page: 217 Other Greek Rhetorical Treatises Page: 224 Chapter Eleven Page: 230 The Second Sophistic Page: 230 Dio Chrysostom Page: 233 Polemon and Herodes Atticus Page: 237 Aelius Aristides Page: 239 Sophistry from the Late Second to the Early Fourth Century Page: 241 The Sophistic Renaissance of the Fourth Century Page: 242 Prohaeresius Page: 243 Himerius Page: 244 Libanius Page: 247 Themistius Page: 251 Synesius Page: 252 The “University” of Constantinople Page: 254 The School of Gaza Page: 254 The Decline of the Schools Page: 255 Chapter Twelve Page: 257 Christianity and Classical Rhetoric Page: 257 Christian Panegyric Page: 260 Gregory of Nazianzus Page: 261 Other Major Figures of the Fourth Century Page: 263 The Latin Fathers Page: 264 Saint Augustine Page: 265 Chapter Thirteen Page: 271 The Survival of Classical Rhetoric from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages Page: 271 The Decline in the East Page: 271 The Decline in the West Page: 273 Latin Grammarians of Later Antiquity Page: 274 The “Minor” Latin Rhetoricians Page: 275 Martianus Capella Page: 278 Cassiodorus Page: 279 Isidore of Seville Page: 280 Other Late Latin Works on Rhetoric Page: 280 Bede and Alcuin Page: 281 Boethius Page: 282 Bibliography Page: 285 Index Page: 295

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George Kennedy's three volumes on classical rhetoric have long been regarded as authoritative treatments of the subject. This new volume, an extensive revision and abridgment of The Art of Persuasion in Greece, The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World, and Greek Rhetoric under Christian Emperors, provides a comprehensive history of classical rhetoric, one that is sure to become a standard for its time. Kennedy begins by identifying the rhetorical features of early Greek literature that anticipated the formulation of "metarhetoric," or a theory of rhetoric, in the fifth and fourth centuries b.c.e. and then traces the development of that theory through the Greco-Roman period. He gives an account of the teaching of literary and oral composition in schools, and of Greek and Latin oratory as the primary rhetorical genre. He also discusses the overlapping disciplines of ancient philosophy and religion and their interaction with rhetoric. The result is a broad and engaging history of classical rhetoric that will prove especially useful for students and for others who want an overview of classical rhetoric in condensed form.