Menander [[electronic resource] ] : a rhetor in context / / Malcolm Heath

• Autore: Heath Malcolm
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (393 p.)
• Disciplina: 885.01
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Laodicea ad Lycum (Extinct city) Intellectual life
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Menander
• ISBN: 1-281-90662-X; 9786611906627; 0-19-153178-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996209794203316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno