The origins of rhetoric in ancient Greece

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The origins of rhetoric in ancient Greece

Thomas Cole

(Ancient society and history)

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995, c1991

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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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.

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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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