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An exciting and accessible introduction to rhetoric and oratory in ancient Greece. All Greek and Latin is translated.

Title Persuasion : Greek rhetoric in action / edited by Ian Worthington.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher London
New York : Routledge
Creation Date 1994
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-273) and index.
English
Content Book Cover
Title
Contents
Notes on contributors
Preface
Abbreviations
From orality to rhetoric: an intellectual transformation
Rhetorical means of persuasion
Probability and persuasion: Plato and early Greek rhetoric
Classical rhetoric and modern theories of discourse
Power and oratory in democratic Athens: Demosthenes 21, against Meidias
History and oratorical exploitation
Law and oratory
Epic and rhetoric
Tragedy and rhetoric
Comedy and rhetoric
Philosophy and rhetoric
The Canon of the Ten Attic Orators
Bibliography
Index
Extent 1 online resource (290 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010708351405171
MARC RECORDS

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