02783nam 2200625Ia 450 991082911420332120200520144314.01-281-90662-X97866119066270-19-153178-2(CKB)1000000000375195(EBL)728901(OCoLC)302365678(SSID)ssj0000088260(PQKBManifestationID)11126691(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000088260(PQKBWorkID)10092963(PQKB)10933785(StDuBDS)EDZ0000073620(MiAaPQ)EBC728901(EXLCZ)99100000000037519520040930d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMenander a rhetor in context /Malcolm HeathOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20041 online resource (393 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-171793-2 0-19-925920-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-349) and indexes.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 IndexThis 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 hadOratory, AncientRhetoric, AncientSpeeches, addresses, etc., GreekHistory and criticismTheory, etcSpeeches, addresses, etc., GreekStudy and teachingTurkeyLaodicea ad Lycum (Extinct city)HistoryTo 500Laodicea ad Lycum (Extinct city)Intellectual lifeOratory, Ancient.Rhetoric, Ancient.Speeches, addresses, etc., GreekHistory and criticismTheory, etc.Speeches, addresses, etc., GreekStudy and teachingHistory885.01885.01Heath Malcolm289454MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910829114203321Menander1104422UNINA