Rhetoric in Antiquity

Name: Rhetoric in Antiquity
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ISBN: 9780813214078

ISBN-10: 0813214076

ISBN-13: 9780813214078

Edition: 2005

Authors: Laurent Pernot, W. E. Higgins

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Originally published as La Rhitorique dans l'Antiquiti (2000), this new English edition provides students with a valuable introduction to understanding the classical art of rhetoric and its place in ancient society and politics. Rhetoric formed an essential part of teaching and general culture. Today it gives indispensable keys to addressing current problems in literary theory, philosophy and aesthetics, communication, and political or legal debate. It bears a body of knowledge about reasoning and language, a vocabulary still in use, and transcends traditional barriers between disciplines and periods. Written by a leading scholar of classical rhetoric, Laurent Pernot, the book offers a…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Publication date: 7/31/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Rhetoric before "rhetoric"


The Sophistic revolution


The Athenian moment


The Hellenistic globalization


The Roman way and Romanization


The empire : innovation in the tradition


Conclusion : the heritage of Greco-Roman rhetoric


Thesaurus : the system of rhetoric