A Companion to Roman Rhetoric

by Dominik, William; Hall, Jon

• ISBN13: 9781405120913
• ISBN10: 1405120916
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-09
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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.

Author Biography

William Dominik is Professor of Classics at the University of Otago. He is a contributor to A Companion to Ancient Epic (2005) and A Companion to the Classical Tradition (2006). He has also published numerous books, chapters, and articles on Roman literature and other topics.

Jon Hall is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Otago. He is the author of numerous articles and chapters on Cicero’s oratory and rhetorical treatises. He has also completed a book on Cicero’s correspondence.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

Preface

Texts and Abbreviations

Approaching Rhetoric

Confronting Roman Rhetoric

Modern Critical Approaches to Roman Rhetoric

Greek Rhetoric Meets Rome: Expansion, Resistance, and Acculturation

Native Roman Rhetoric: Plautus and Terence

Roman Oratory Before Cicero: The Elder Cato and Gaius Gracchus

Rhetoric and Its Social Context

Rhetorical Education and Social Reproduction in the Republic and Early Empire

Virile Tongues: Rhetoric and Masculinity

Oratory, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Republic

Oratory and Politics in the Empire

Roman Senatorial Oratory

Panegyric

Roman Oratorical Invective

Systematizing Rhetoric

Roman Rhetorical Handbooks

Elocutio: Latin Prose Style

Memory and the Roman Orator

Wit and Humor in Roman Rhetoric

Oratorical Delivery and the Emotions: Theory and Practice

Rhetoricians and Orators

Lost Orators of Rome

Cicero as Rhetorician

Cicero as Orator

Grammarians and Rhetoricians

Roman Declamation: The Elder Seneca and Quintilian

Quintilian as Rhetorician and Teacher

Tacitus and Pliny on Oratory

Rhetoric and the Second Sophistic

Roman Rhetoric and its Afterlife

Rhetoric and Roman Literature

Rhetoric and Literature at Rome

Rhetoric and Epic: Vergil's Aeneid and Lucan's Bellum Civile

Rhetoric and Satire: Horace, Persius, and Juvenal

Rhetoric and Ovid

Rhetoric and the Younger Seneca

Rhetoric and Historiography

Bibliography

Glossary of Technical Terms

Index Locorum

General Index

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