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21) The state of speech: rhetoric and political thought in Ancient Rome

Author

Connolly, Joy

Pub. Date

2007

Physical Desc

xii, 304 pages ; 24 cm

Language

English

Description

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Joy Connolly is assistant professor of classics at New York University. She is the author of Talk about Virtue (forthcoming, Duckworth), a book about Roman political theory. Rhetorical theory, the core of Roman education, taught rules of public speaking that are still influential today. But Roman rhetoric has long been regarded as having little important to say about political ideas. The State of Speech presents a forceful challenge to this view....

22) The lesser declamations

Author

Quintilian

Series

Lîb classical library

Pub. Date

2006

Physical Desc

2 volumes ; 17 cm.

Language

English

23) Essays on classical rhetoric and modern discourse

Pub. Date

1984

Lexile measure

1560L

Physical Desc

xiii, 291 pages : portrait ; 24 cm

Language

English

24) Roman oratory

Author

Steel, C. E. W

Series

Greece and Rome. New surveys in the classics

Pub. Date

2006

Physical Desc

90 pages ; 24 cm.

Language

English

25) The Institutio oratoria of Quintilian

Author

Quintilian

Series

Loeb classical library

Pub. Date

1986

Physical Desc

1 volume, 595 pages ; 17 cm.

Language

English

26) Anecdotes and arguments: the Chreia in antiquity and early Christianity

Author

Mack, Burton L

Series

Occasional papers

Pub. Date

1987

Physical Desc

48 pages ; 25 cm.

Language

English

27) De oratore

Author

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Series

Cicero in twenty-eight volumes
Loeb classical library

Pub. Date

1988

Physical Desc

2 volumes ; 17 cm.

Language

English

28) Aristotle on political reasoning: a commentary on The rhetoric

Author

Arnhart, Larry

Pub. Date

1981

Physical Desc

ix, 230 pages ; 24 cm

Language

English

29) Ancient rhetoric and the art of Tertullian

Author

Sider, Robert D

Series

Oxford theological monographs

Pub. Date

1971

Physical Desc

xi, 142 pages ; 22 cm.

Language

English

30) Menander Rhetor: Ars rhetorica

Author

Menander

Series

Loeb classical library volume 539

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Pub. Date

2019.

Physical Desc

x, 462 pages, 3 unnumbered pages of plates : maps ; 17 cm.

Language

English

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"This volume contains three rhetorical treatises dating probably from the reign of Diocletian (AD 285-312) that provide instruction on how to compose epideictic (display) speeches for a wide variety of occasions both public and private. Two are attributed to one Menander Rhetor of Laodicea (in southwestern Turkey); the third, known as the Ars Rhetorica, incorrectly to the earlier historian and literary critic Dionysius of Halicarnassus. These treatises...