Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. CHAPTER ONE. Introduction: The Nature of Rhetoric 3
5. CHAPTER TWO. Persuasion in Greek Literature before 400 B.C. 11
6. CHAPTER THREE. Greek Rhetorical Theory from Corax to Aristotle 30
7. CHAPTER FOUR. The Attic Orators 64
8. CHAPTER FIVE. Hellenistic Rhetoric 81
9. CHAPTER SIX. Early Roman Rhetoric 102
10. CHAPTER SEVEN. Cicero 128
11. CHAPTER EIGHT. Rhetoric in Augustan Rome 159
12. CHAPTER NINE. Latin Rhetoric in the Silver Age 173
13. CHAPTER TEN. Greek Rhetoric under the Roman Empire 201
14. CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Second Sophistic 230
15. CHAPTER TWELVE. Christianity and Classical Rhetoric 257
16. CHAPTER THIRTEEN. The Survival of Classical Rhetoric from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages 271
17. Bibliography 285
18. Index 297