A companion to Roman rhetoric /

A companion to Roman rhetoric /

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Imprint:Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2007.
Description:xix, 523 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture
Subject:
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Rhetoric, Ancient
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6224304
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Other authors / contributors:Dominik, William J.
Hall, Jon (Jon C. R.), 1961-
ISBN:1405120916 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781405120913 (hardback : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [451]-486) and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Preface
  • Texts and Abbreviations
  • Part I. Approaching Rhetoric
  • 1. Confronting Roman Rhetoric
  • 2. Modern Critical Approaches to Roman Rhetoric
  • 3. Greek Rhetoric Meets Rome: Expansion, Resistance, and Acculturation
  • 4. Native Roman Rhetoric: Plautus and Terence
  • 5. Roman Oratory Before Cicero: The Elder Cato and Gaius Gracchus
  • Part II. Rhetoric and Its Social Context
  • 6. Rhetorical Education and Social Reproduction in the Republic and Early Empire
  • 7. Virile Tongues: Rhetoric and Masculinity
  • 8. Oratory, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Republic
  • 9. Oratory and Politics in the Empire
  • 10. Roman Senatorial Oratory
  • 11. Panegyric
  • 12. Roman Oratorical Invective
  • Part III. Systematizing Rhetoric
  • 13. Roman Rhetorical Handbooks
  • 14. Elocutio: Latin Prose Style
  • 15. Memory and the Roman Orator
  • 16. Wit and Humor in Roman Rhetoric
  • 17. Oratorical Delivery and the Emotions: Theory and Practice
  • Part IV. Rhetoricians and Orators
  • 18. Lost Orators of Rome
  • 19. Cicero as Rhetorician
  • 20. Cicero as Orator
  • 21. Grammarians and Rhetoricians
  • 22. Roman Declamation: The Elder Seneca and Quintilian
  • 23. Quintilian as Rhetorician and Teacher
  • 24. Tacitus and Pliny on Oratory
  • 25. Rhetoric and the Second Sophistic
  • 26. Roman Rhetoric and its Afterlife
  • Part V. Rhetoric and Roman Literature
  • 27. Rhetoric and Literature at Rome
  • 28. Rhetoric and Epic: Vergil's Aeneid and Lucan's Bellum Civile
  • 29. Rhetoric and Satire: Horace, Persius, and Juvenal
  • 30. Rhetoric and Ovid
  • 31. Rhetoric and the Younger Seneca
  • 32. Rhetoric and Historiography
  • Bibliography
  • Glossary of Technical Terms
  • Index Locorum
  • General Index

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