Hermogenes' on Types of Style

Name: Hermogenes' on Types of Style
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ISBN: 9780807866450

ISBN-10: 0807866458

ISBN-13: 9780807866450

Edition: 2011

Authors: Cecil W. Wooten

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Cecil Wooten has produced the first translation into any modern langauage of a key treatise of the ancient world. He provides a faithful English translation of Hermogenes' analysis based on a reliable Greek text established by Rabe at the beginning of this century and includes a substantial scholarly introduction and notes that will help the reader better understand Hermogenes, his exposition, and the historical and cultural context in which it was produced. Hermogenes' work is both systematic and complex. He outlines, with almost mathematical precision, seven basic types of ideal forms of style -- Clarity, Grandeur, Beauty, Rapidity, Character, Sincerity, and Force -- some of which he…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 1/27/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.42" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English