Hermogenes On Issues : Strategies of Argument in Later Greek Rhetoric

ISBN-13: 9780198149828 / Angielski

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Opis

This is the only modern English translation with commentary in print of this important treatise by Hermogenes of Tarsus (AD C.160-225). The book makes sophisticated theories of argument developed by Greek teachers of rhetoric in the second century AD accessible both to specialist and non-specialist readers.

Recenzje

Heath's is not the first translation of On Issues into English ... but it will become the standard one. It reads well, and it looks good, with plenty of subheadings and paragraph-breaks to ease the strain on the reader ... To reflect on the difficulties of the technical terms is to appreciate the scale of Heath's achievement. He is to be congratulated on a thoroughly worthy accomplishment. Teachers of ancient rhetoric will from now on have one excuse fewer for not including stasis-theory in their courses.