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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829114203321

Autore

Heath Malcolm

Titolo

Menander : a rhetor in context / / Malcolm Heath

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004

ISBN

1-281-90662-X

9786611906627

0-19-153178-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (393 p.)

Disciplina

885.01

Soggetti

Oratory, Ancient

Rhetoric, Ancient

Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek - Study and teaching - Turkey - Laodicea ad Lycum (Extinct city) - History - To 500

Laodicea ad Lycum (Extinct city) Intellectual life

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. [333]-349) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I: Continuity and Innovation; Part II: Menander of Laodicea; Part III: Classroom and Career; Bibliography; Index of Passages Cited; General Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book undertakes a fundamental assessment of Menander of Laodicea ('Menander Rhetor'), and of the nature and functions of rhetoric in later antiquity (second to fifth centuries AD). It examines Menander's fragments, collected here for the first time, in detail, showing that he was primarily an expert on judicial and deliberative oratory; a source-critical analysis of the Demosthenes scholia shows that his influential commentary on Demosthenes can be partially reconstructed. Itexplores the educational practices of the rhetorical schools, and shows that the skills which they taught still had