Rhetoric at Rome: A Historical Survey

ISBN-13: 9780415141567 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 228 str.

M. L. Clarke

Opis

This new edition of M.L. Clarke's 1953 classics study of Roman rhetoric incorporates corrections and a new introduction by D.H. Berry. The bibliography has been substantially updated and supplemented by suggestions for further reading.

Spis treści

Introduction to the third edition I THE GREEK BACKGROUND II RHETORIC AT ROME UNDER THE REPUBLIC III ARS RHETORICA IV ROMAN ORATORY BEFORE CICERO V CICERO’S RHETORICAL THEORY VI CICERONIAN ORATORY I VII CICERONIAN ORATORY II VIII DECLAMATION IX ORATORY UNDER THE EMPIRE X QUINTILIAN AND RHETORICAL THEORY XI QUINTILIAN AND RHETORICAL TEACHING XII THE AGE OF THE ANTONINES XIII RHETORIC IN THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE XIV RHETORIC AND CHRISTIANITY XV CONCLUSION

O autorze

M.L. Clarke is Emeritus Professor of Latin at the University College of North Wales, Bangor. His other books include The Roman Mind (1956), Higher Education in the Ancient World (1971) and The Noblest Roman (1981). D.H. Berry (Introduction) is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Leeds and the editor of Cicero: Pro P. Sulla Oratio (1996).