Rhetoric In Antiquity

by Pernot, Laurent; Higgins, William Edward

• ISBN13: 9780813214078
• ISBN10: 0813214076
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-07-30
• Publisher: Catholic Univ of Amer Pr

Summary

"Originally published as La Rhetorique Dans L'Antiquite (2000), this new English edition provides students with a valuable introduction to understanding the classical art of rhetoric and its place in ancient society and politics."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

W. E. Higgins is a former junior fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Laurent Pernot is Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Strasbourg and President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric.

Table of Contents

Translator's Note	vii
Introduction	ix
First Excursus: Rhetoric of...	xiii
1. Rhetoric before "Rhetoric"	1	(9)
Homer	1	(6)
From the Homeric World to the Classical World	7	(3)
2. The Sophistic Revolution	10	(14)
The "First Inventors"	10	(2)
The Sophists	12	(3)
Gorgias	15	(9)
Second Excursus: The Birth of the Word Rhetorike	21	(3)
3. The Athenian Moment	24	(33)
The Practice of Oratory	24	(10)
The Republic of the Orators: Reality and Image	34	(5)
Third Excursus: The Canon of the Ten Attic Orators	36	(3)
Teaching and Theory of Rhetoric	39	(5)
The Philosophical and Moral Problem of Rhetoric	44	(13)
4. The Hellenistic Globalization	57	(26)
Advances in Rhetorical Technique	58	(10)
Philosophies Investigate Rhetoric	68	(5)
The Life of Eloquence in the Greek World	73	(10)
Fourth Excursus: Greek Political Eloquence Did Not Die at Khaironeia	74	(9)
5. The Roman Way and Romanization	83	(45)
The Background of Roman Rhetoric	84	(9)
Stars of Roman Rhetoric before Cicero	93	(5)
The Conquest of Greek Rhetoric	98	(7)
Cicero	105	(20)
Fifth Excursus: Laughter as Weapon	121	(4)
Cicero's Contemporaries	125	(3)
6. The Empire: Innovation in the Tradition	128	(74)
Decline or Renaissance of Rhetoric?	128	(6)
General Characteristics of the Period	134	(1)
Literary Criticism	135	(7)
Archaism and Atticism	142	(3)
Rhetoric, Queen of the Curriculum	145	(12)
Treatises on Theory	157	(11)
The Emperor as Orator	168	(3)
The Practice of Oratory and the Irresistible Rise of the Epideictic Genre	171	(11)
The Roman Orators	182	(4)
The Second Sophistic	186	(10)
Sixth Excursus: Aelius Aristides, Sophist by the Grace of Asklepios	194	(2)
Rhetoric and Literature	196	(6)
Conclusion: The Heritage of Greco-Roman Rhetoric	202	(13)
The Conversion of Rhetoric	204	(4)
From the End of Antiquity to Modern Times	208	(1)
Greco-Roman Rhetoric Today	209	(6)
Thesaurus: The System of Rhetoric	215	(18)
Chronological Table	233	(4)
Bibliography	237	(16)
Index of Proper Names	253	(5)
Index of Subjects	258	(6)
Index of Greek Words	264	(3)
Index of Latin Words	267