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.--publisher's Description. Ch. 1. Introduction: The Nature Of Rhetoric -- Ch. 2. Persuasion In Greek Literature Before 400 B.c. -- Ch. 3. Greek Rhetorical Theory From Corax To Aristotle. Plato's Gorgias. Plato's Phaedrus. Isocrates. The Rhetoric For Alexander. Aristotle -- Ch. 4. The Attic Orators. Lysias. Demosthenes -- Ch. 5. Hellenistic Rhetoric. Theophrastus. Later Peripatetics. Demetrius, On Style. The Stoics. The Academics. The Epicureans. Asianism. Hermagoras And Stasis Theory -- Ch. 6. Early Roman Rhetoric. Cato The Elder. Roman Orators Of The Late Second And Early First Centuries B.c. Latin Rhetoricians. Cicero's On Invention. The Rhetoric For Herennius -- Ch. 7. Cicero. Cicero's Orations In The Years From 81 To 56 B.c. On The Orator. For Milo And Cicero's Later Speeches. Brutus And Orator -- Ch. 8. Rhetoric In Augustan Rome. Greek Rhetoricians Of The Second Half Of The First Century B.c. Dionysius Of Halicarnassus. Declamation And Seneca The Elder -- Ch. 9. Latin Rhetoric In The Silver Age. George A. Kennedy. 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, With Additional Discussion Of Late Latin Rhetoric. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 285-295) And Index.

A New History of Classical Rhetoric (Princeton Paperbacks)

Princeton University, Department of Art & Archaeology

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Princeton paperbacks, Princeton, N.J, New Jersey, 1994

Princeton paperbacks, Princeton, N.J, cop. 1994

United States, United States of America

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First Edition, PT, 1994

United Kingdom, 1994

Subsequent, 1994

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-295) and index.
"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, with additional discussion of Late Latin rhetoric."

<p>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.</p><h3>The Economist</h3><p>The discipline of rhetoric, as Mr. Kennedy shows meticulously, was central to ancient life.</p>

Provides a comprehensive history of classical rhetoric. This work 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 and then traces the development of that theory through the Greco-Roman period.

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