LEADER 02783nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910829114203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-90662-X 010 $a9786611906627 010 $a0-19-153178-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000375195 035 $a(EBL)728901 035 $a(OCoLC)302365678 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000088260 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11126691 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000088260 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10092963 035 $a(PQKB)10933785 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000073620 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC728901 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000375195 100 $a20040930d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMenander $ea rhetor in context /$fMalcolm Heath 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (393 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-171793-2 311 $a0-19-925920-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [333]-349) and indexes. 327 $aContents; 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 330 $aThis 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 606 $aOratory, Ancient 606 $aRhetoric, Ancient 606 $aSpeeches, addresses, etc., Greek$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aSpeeches, addresses, etc., Greek$xStudy and teaching$zTurkey$zLaodicea ad Lycum (Extinct city)$xHistory$yTo 500 607 $aLaodicea ad Lycum (Extinct city)$xIntellectual life 615 0$aOratory, Ancient. 615 0$aRhetoric, Ancient. 615 0$aSpeeches, addresses, etc., Greek$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aSpeeches, addresses, etc., Greek$xStudy and teaching$xHistory 676 $a885.01 676 $a885.01 700 $aHeath$b Malcolm$0289454 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910829114203321 996 $aMenander$91104422 997 $aUNINA