1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910810302803321

Autore

Knudsen Rachel Ahern

Titolo

Homeric speech and the origins of rhetoric / / Rachel Ahern Knudsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4214-1227-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 p.)

Disciplina

883/.01

Soggetti

Rhetoric, Ancient

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Rhetoric in Homer -- Reconsidering the origins of rhetoric -- Investigating Homeric rhetoric -- Patterns of Aristotelian rhetoric in the Iliad -- The genealogy of rhetoric from Homer to Aristotle -- Explaining the correspondence between Homeric speech and Aristotelian theory -- Rhetoric in archaic poetry -- From poetry to theory -- Appendix: analysis of remaining Iliadic rhetorical speeches.