The origins of rhetoric in ancient Greece
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The origins of rhetoric in ancient Greece
（Ancient society and history）
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995, c1991
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Description
Is it fair to judge early Greek rhetoric by the standards of Plato and Aristotle? This text argues that it is not, and yet this is the path taken by current scholarship on the subject. Arguing against this view, this work sees early Greek rhetoric as largely unsystematic efforts to explore, more by means than by precept, all aspects of discourse. Replacing these early text by such treatises as the "Rhetoric" of Aristotle, Cole explains, can only be understood as part of a gradual process, as artistic prose came to be disseminated in written texts and so available in a form that, for the first time, be analyzed, evaluated and closely imitated.
Table of Contents
Preface
Bibliographical Note
Chapter 1. Rhetoric, Neorhetoric, Protorhetoric
Part I. The Prerhetorical Age
Chapter 2. Oral Poetry and Oral Eloquence
Chapter 3. Tact and Etiquette
Chapter 4. Allegory and Rhetoric
Part II. The Late Fifth Century
Chapter 5. Techne and Text
Chapter 6. The Range and Limits of Techne
Part III. The Fourth Century
Chapter 7. Rhetoric and Prose
Chapter 8. Rhetoric and Philosophy
Notes
General Index
Index of Passages Cited
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