The Art of Persuasion in Greece

by: Kennedy, G.

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A concern for the art of persuasion, as rhetoric was anciently defined, was a principal feature of Greek intellectual life. In this study of the complex of subjects labeled "rhetoric," the author explores rhetorical theory and practice from the fifth to the first centuries B.C. Beginning with the creative rhetoric of the pre-Socratic era, the study progresses through the time of Aristotle and the Attic orators and concludes with the ossification of rhetoric into a pedantic discipline during the Hellenistic period.

Introduction: the nature of rhetoric
Techniques of persuasion in Greek literature before 400 B.C
Early rhetorical theory, Corax to Aristotle. Corax and Tisias ; Gorgias ; Thrasymachus ; Other rhetoricians ; Isocrates ; Plato's Phaedrus ; Theodectes ; The development of Aristotle's Rhetoric ; Aristotle on invention ; The third book of Aristotle's Rhetoric ; The Rhetorica ad Alexandrum
The Attic orators. Judicial Oratory. Antiphon, Lysias, Isaeus, Andocides, Trial of Socrates ; Epideictic oratory. Funeral orations, Festival orations, Sophistic oratory, Isocrates ; Deliberative oratory ; Demosthenes ; Aeschines ; The lesser orators of the later fourth century. Apollodorus, Lycurgus, Hyperides, Dinarchus
Hellenistic rhetoric to the arrival in Rome of Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Theophrastus ; Demetrius ; The stoics ; Other philosophical schools ; Asianism ; Hermagoras ; The quarrel between rhetoric and philosophy ; Atticism
Appendix: The introduction to On the ancient orators by Dionysius of Halicarnassus

Subjects:
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Griechisch
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Composition & Creative Writing
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Rhetoric
REFERENCE Writing Skills
Rhetoric, Ancient
Rhetorik
Rhétorique ancienne

The Art of Persuasion in Greece

by: Kennedy, G.

• Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1969

Price: 69,00 EURO

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