A New History of Classical Rhetoric / / George A. Kennedy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Kennedy, George A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

George Kennedy's three volumes on classical rhetoric have long been regarded as authoritative treatments of the subject. This new volume, an extensive revision and abridgment of The Art of Persuasion in Greece, The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World, and Greek Rhetoric under Christian Emperors, provides a comprehensive history of classical rhetoric, one that is sure to become a standard for its time. Kennedy begins by identifying the rhetorical features of early Greek literature that anticipated the formulation of "metarhetoric," or a theory of rhetoric, in the fifth and fourth centuries b.c.e. and then traces the development of that theory through the Greco-Roman period. He gives an account of the teaching of literary and oral composition in schools, and of Greek and Latin oratory as the primary rhetorical genre. He also discusses the overlapping disciplines of ancient philosophy and religion and their interaction with rhetoric. The result is a broad and engaging history of classical rhetoric that will prove especially useful for students and for others who want an overview of classical rhetoric in condensed form.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- CHAPTER ONE. Introduction: The Nature of Rhetoric -- CHAPTER TWO. Persuasion in Greek Literature before 400 B.C. -- CHAPTER THREE. Greek Rhetorical Theory from Corax to Aristotle -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Attic Orators -- CHAPTER FIVE. Hellenistic Rhetoric -- CHAPTER SIX. Early Roman Rhetoric -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Cicero -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Rhetoric in Augustan Rome -- CHAPTER NINE. Latin Rhetoric in the Silver Age -- CHAPTER TEN. Greek Rhetoric under the Roman Empire -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Second Sophistic -- CHAPTER TWELVE. Christianity and Classical Rhetoric -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. The Survival of Classical Rhetoric from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages -- Bibliography -- Index