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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811258403321

Autore

Kennedy George A (George Alexander), <1928-2022>

Titolo

The art of persuasion in Greece / / by George Kennedy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , 1963

©1963

ISBN

1-4008-7572-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (362 p.)

Collana

Princeton Legacy Library

Disciplina

808

Soggetti

Rhetoric, Ancient

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter One. Introduction: The Nature of Rhetoric -- Chapter Two. Techniques of Persuasion in Greek Literature before 400 B.C. -- Chapter Three. Early Rhetorical Theory, Corax to Aristotle -- Chapter Four. The Attic Orators -- Chapter Five. Hellenistic Rhetoric to the Arrival in Rome of Dionysius of Halicarnassus -- Appendix. The Introduction to "On the ancient orators" by Dionysius of Halicarnassus -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

A concern for the art of persuasion, as rhetoric was anciently defined, was a principal feature of Greek intellectual life. In this study of the complex of subjects labeled "rhetoric," the author explores rhetorical theory and practice from the fifth to the first centuries B.C. Beginning with the creative rhetoric of the pre-Socratic era, the study progresses through the time of Aristotle and the Attic orators and concludes with the ossification of rhetoric into a pedantic discipline during the Hellenistic period. Originally published in 1963.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.