| Description |
1 online resource (x, 277 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-272) and index. |
| Contents |
From orality to rhetoric: an intellectual transformation / Carol G. Thomas and Edward Kent Webb -- Rhetorical means of persuasion / Christopher Carey -- Probability and persuasion: Plato and early Greek rhetoric / Michael Gagarin -- Classical rhetoric and modern theories of discourse / David Cohen -- Power and oratory in democratic Athens: Demosthenes 21, against Meidias / Josiah Ober -- History and oratorical exploitation / Ian Worthington -- Law and oratory / Edward M. Harris -- Epic and rhetoric / Peter Toohey -- Tragedy and rhetoric / Victor Bers -- Comedy and rhetoric / Phillip Harding -- Philosophy and rhetoric / Stephen Halliwell -- The Canon of the ten Attic orators / Ian Worthington. |
| Summary |
An exciting and accessible introduction to rhetoric and oratory in ancient Greece. All Greek and Latin is translated. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Greek literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Greek literature. |
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Literary form -- History -- To 500.
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Literary form. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 500 |
| Subject |
Persuasion (Rhetoric)
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Persuasion (Rhetoric) |
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Rhetoric, Ancient.
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Rhetoric, Ancient. |
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Oratory, Ancient.
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Oratory, Ancient. |
| Indexed Term |
Rhetoric History |
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Greece |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Worthington, Ian.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Persuasion. London ; New York : Routledge, 1994 0415081386 (DLC) 93002061 (OCoLC)28182046 |
| ISBN |
020330943X (electronic book) |
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9780203309438 (electronic book) |
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0415081386 (Cloth) |
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9780415081382 (Cloth) |
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0415081394 (Paper) |
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9780415081399 (Paper) |
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0203418409 (electronic book) |
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9780203418406 (electronic book) |
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