"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.

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.

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

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