The orator in action and theory in Greece and Rome /

The orator in action and theory in Greece and Rome /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001.
Description:	xvii, 172 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 0169-8958 ; 224 Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 224.
Subject:	Oratory, Ancient. Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek -- History and criticism. Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin -- History and criticism. Oratory, Ancient. Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek. Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4507420

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Other authors / contributors:	Wooten, Cecil W., 1945- Kennedy, George A. (George Alexander), 1928-
ISBN:	9004122133 (acid-free paper) 9789004122130 (acid-free paper)
Notes:	Chiefly papers presented at a conference held Oct. 1998, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in honor of George Kennedy. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other form:	Online version: Orator in action and theory in Greece and Rome. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001

Table of Contents:

Preface
Bibliography of George Kennedy
I.. The Orator in Theory
1.. How Good Should an Orator Be?
2.. What the Laws Have Prejudged: and Early Issue Theory
II.. The Orator in Action: Greece
3.. The Superfluous Bag: Rhetoric and Display in the Histories of Herodotus
4.. Rhetoric, Art, and Myth: Isocrates and Busiris
III.. The Orator in Action: Rome
5.. Julius Caesar, The Orator of Paradox
6.. Shifting Charge and Shifty Argument in Cicero's Speech for Sestius
7.. Cicero's Pro Milone: An Ideal Speech of an Ideal Orator
IV.. The Orator in the Empire
8.. Returning to Tacitus' Dialogus
9.. Figured Speeches: 'Dionysius,' Art of Rhetoric VIII-IX
General Index
Index Locorum