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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450966803321

Titolo

Persuasion : Greek rhetoric in action / / edited by Ian Worthington

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1994

ISBN

1-280-32125-3

1-134-89268-3

0-203-30943-X

0-203-41840-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WorthingtonIan

Disciplina

808/.00938

Soggetti

Greek literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Rhetoric, Ancient

Persuasion (Rhetoric)

Oratory, Ancient

Literary form

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-273) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Abbreviations; From orality to rhetoric: an intellectual transformation; Rhetorical means of persuasion; Probability and persuasion: Plato and early Greek rhetoric; Classical rhetoric and modern theories of discourse; Power and oratory in democratic Athens: Demosthenes 21, against Meidias; History and oratorical exploitation; Law and oratory; Epic and rhetoric; Tragedy and rhetoric; Comedy and rhetoric; Philosophy and rhetoric; The Canon of the Ten Attic Orators; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

An exciting and accessible introduction to rhetoric and oratory in ancient Greece. All Greek and Latin is translated.