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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810891803321

Autore

Crick Nathan

Titolo

Rhetoric and Power : the drama of classical Greece / / Nathan Crick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, South Carolina : , : The University of South Carolina Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-61117-981-5

1-61117-396-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Collana

Studies in Rhetoric/Communication

Disciplina

882/.0109

Soggetti

Greek drama - History and criticism

Rhetoric, Ancient

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Homer's Iliad and the epic tradition of heroic eloquence -- Heraclitus and the revelation of logos -- Aeschylus's Persians and the birth of tragedy -- Protagoras and the promise of politics -- Gorgias's Helen and the powers of action and fabrication -- Thucydides and the political history of power -- Aristophanes's Birds and the corrective of comedy -- Plato's Protagoras and the art of tragicomedy -- Isocrates's "Nicocles" and the hymn to hegemony -- Aristotle on rhetoric and civilization.