A New History of Classical Rhetoric

by Kennedy, George A.

• ISBN13: 9780691000596
• ISBN10: 069100059X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-10-17
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

George Kennedy's three volumes on classical rhetoric have long been regarded as authoritative treatments of the subject. This new volume, an extensive revision and abridgment ofThe Art of Persuasion in Greece,The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World,andGreek Rhetoric under Christian Emperors,provides a comprehensive history of classical rhetoric, one that is sure to become a standard for its time. Kennedy begins by identifying the rhetorical features of early Greek literature that anticipated the formulation of "metarhetoric," or a theory of rhetoric, in the fifth and fourth centuries b.c.e. and then traces the development of that theory through the Greco-Roman period. He gives an account of the teaching of literary and oral composition in schools, and of Greek and Latin oratory as the primary rhetorical genre. He also discusses the overlapping disciplines of ancient philosophy and religion and their interaction with rhetoric. The result is a broad and engaging history of classical rhetoric that will prove especially useful for students and for others who want an overview of classical rhetoric in condensed form.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Introduction: The Nature of Rhetoric	3	(8)
Persuasion in Greek Literature before 400 B.C.	11	(19)
Greek Rhetorical Theory from Corax to Aristotle	30	(34)
Plato's Gorgias	35	(4)
Plato's Phaedrus	39	(4)
Isocrates	43	(6)
The Rhetoric for Alexander	49	(2)
Aristotle	51	(13)
The Attic Orators	64	(17)
Lysias	65	(3)
Demosthenes	68	(13)
Hellenistic Rhetoric	81	(21)
Theophrastus	84	(3)
Later Peripatetics	87	(1)
Demetrius, On Style	88	(2)
The Stoics	90	(3)
The Academics	93	(1)
The Epicureans	93	(2)
Asianism	95	(2)
Hermagoras and Stasis Theory	97	(5)
Early Roman Rhetoric	102	(26)
Cato the Elder	106	(5)
Roman Orators of the Late Second and Early First Centuries B.C.	111	(4)
Latin Rhetoricians	115	(2)
Cicero's On Invention	117	(4)
The Rhetoric for Herennius	121	(7)
Cicero	128	(31)
Cicero's Orations in the Years from 81 to 56 B.C.	129	(11)
On the Orator	140	(7)
For Milo and Cicero's Later Speeches	147	(4)
Brutus and Orator	151	(8)
Rhetoric in Augustan Rome	159	(14)
Greek Rhetoricians of the Second Half of the First Century B.C.	160	(1)
Dionysius of Halicarnassus	161	(5)
Declamation and Seneca the Elder	166	(7)
Latin Rhetoric in the Silver Age	173	(28)
Quintilian	177	(9)
Discussions of the ``Decline of Eloquence''	186	(6)
Pliny the Younger	192	(4)
Fronto and Gellius	196	(3)
Apuleius	199	(2)
Greek Rhetoric under the Roman Empire	201	(29)
Progymnasmata	202	(6)
Hermogenes and the Formation of the Hermogenic Corpus	208	(9)
Prolegomena	217	(7)
Other Greek Rhetorical Treatises	224	(6)
The Second Sophistic	230	(27)
Dio Chrysostom	233	(4)
Polemon and Herodes Atticus	237	(2)
Aelius Aristides	239	(2)
Sophistry from the Late Second to the Early Fourth Century	241	(1)
The Sophistic Renaissance of the Fourth Century	242	(1)
Prohaeresius	243	(2)
Himerius	245	(3)
Libanius	248	(3)
Themistius	251	(1)
Synesius	252	(2)
The ``University'' of Constantinople	254	(1)
The School of Gaza	255	(1)
The Decline of the Schools	256	(1)
Christianity and Classical Rhetoric	257	(14)
Christian Panegyric	260	(1)
Gregory of Nazianzus	261	(2)
Other Major Figures of the Fourth Century	263	(1)
The Latin Fathers	264	(1)
Saint Augustine	265	(6)
The Survival of Classical Rhetoric from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages	271	(14)
The Decline in the East	271	(2)
The Decline in the West	273	(1)
Latin Grammarians of Later Antiquity	274	(1)
The ``Minor'' Latin Rhetoricians	275	(4)
Martianus Capella	279	(1)
Cassiodorus	279	(1)
Isidore of Seville	280	(1)
Other Late Latin Works on Rhetoric	280	(1)
Bede and Alcuin	281	(1)
Boethius	282	(3)
Bibliography	285	(12)
Index	297