Menander : A Rhetor in Context

by: Heath, M.

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Menander
A Rhetor in Context
Malcolm Heath
The first comprehensive study of Menander Rhetor
The most detailed study to date of later Greek rhetoric
Emphasizes the social and educational (as well as the technical and theoretical) dimensions of rhetoric

Description
This book undertakes a fundamental assessment of Menander of Laodicea ('Menander Rhetor'), and of the nature and functions of rhetoric in later antiquity (second to fifth centuries AD). It examines Menander's fragments, collected here for the first time, in detail, showing that he was primarily an expert on judicial and deliberative oratory; a source-critical analysis of the Demosthenes scholia shows that his influential commentary on Demosthenes can be partially reconstructed. It explores the educational practices of the rhetorical schools, and shows that the skills which they taught still had a direct application in the subsequent careers of the rhetoricians' pupils.

Table of Contents
1:Introduction
I. Continuity and Innovation
2:The Second Century: Transformation
3:The Third Century: Fruition
II. Menander of Laodicea
4:Menander: Testimonia and Fragments
5:The Demosthenes Scholia
6:Menander's Commentary
III. Classroom and Career
7:Teaching
8:Technography
9:The Relevance of Rhetoric

Menander : A Rhetor in Context

by: Heath, M.

• ISBN-13: 9780199259205 / 978-0-19-925920-5
• ISBN-03: 0199259208 / 0-19-925920-8
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004

Price: 109,00 EURO

1 copy in stock