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A companion to Roman rhetoric

A Companion to Roman Rhetoric introduces the reader to the wide-ranging importance of rhetoric in Roman culture. A guide to Roman rhetoric from its origins to the Renaissance and beyond. Comprises 32 original essays by leading international scholars. Explores major figures Cicero and Quintilian in-depth. Covers a broad range of topics such as rhetoric and politics, gender, status, self-identity, education, and literature. Provides suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter. Includes a glossary of technical terms and an index of proper names and rhetorical concepts
Print Book, English, 2007
Blackwell, Malden, MA, 2007
Aufsatzsammlung
xix, 523 pages ; 26 cm
9781405120913, 9781444334159, 1405120916, 1444334158
65301722
Confronting Roman rhetoric / William Dominik and Jon Hall
Modern critical approaches to Roman rhetoric / John Dugan
Greek rhetoric meets Rome : expansion, resistance, and acculturation / Sarah Culpepper Stroup
Native Roman rhetoric : Plautus and Terence / John Barsby
Roman oratory before Cicero : the Elder Cato and Gaius Gracchus / Enrica Sciarrino
Rhetorical education and social reproduction in the Republic and Early Empire / Anthony Corbeill
Virile tongues : rhetoric and masculinity / Joy Connolly
Oratory, rhetoric, and politics in the Republic / Michael C. Alexander
Oratory and politics in the Empire / Steven H. Rutledge
Roman senatorial oratory / John T. Ramsey
Panegyric / Roger Rees
Roman oratorical invective / Valentina Arena
Roman rhetorical handbooks / Robert N. Gaines
Elocutio : Latin prose style / Roderich Kirchner
Memory and the Roman orator / Jocelyn Penny Small
Wit and humor in Roman rhetoric / Edwin Rabbie
Oratorical delivery and the emotions : theory and practice / Jon Hall
Lost orators of Rome / Catherine Steel
Cicero as rhetorician / James M. May
Cicero as orator / Christopher P. Craig
Grammarians and rhetoricians / Charles McNelis
Roman declamation : the Elder Seneca and Quintilian / W. Martin Bloomer
Quintilian as rhetorician and teacher / Jorge Fernández López
Tacitus and Pliny on oratory / William Dominik
Rhetoric and the second sophistic / Graham Anderson
Roman rhetoric and its afterlife / John O. Ward
Rhetoric and literature at Rome / Matthew Fox
Rhetoric and epic : Vergil's Aeneid and Lucans Bellum civile / Emanuele Narducci
Rhetoric and satire : Horace, Persius, and Juvenal / Dan Hooley
Rhetoric and Ovid / Ulrike Auhagen
Rhetoric and the Younger Seneca / Marcus Wilson
Rhetoric and historiography / Cynthia Damon