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Two Greek Rhetorical Treatises from the Roman Empire
Introduction, Text, and Translation of the Arts of Rhetoric Attributed to Anonymous Seguerianus and to Apsines of Gadara
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1997
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A revised Greek Text (the first in a century) and English translation (the first in any modern language) of the Art of Political Speech by a writer known as the Anonymous Seguerianus (ca. A.D. 200) and the Art of Rhetoric of Apsines of Gadara (ca. A.D. 230), with introduction, notes, and indices.
These works provide evidence of how rhetoric was taught in Greek in the early centuries of the Roman Empire and show the continued development of an Aristotelian tradition before acceptance of the reorganization of the subject by Hermogenes.
They complement each other in that the Anonymous was especially interested in debates about rhetorical theory, while Apsines' primary interest was in analysis of speeches of Demosthenes and other orators and in teaching declamation.
These works provide evidence of how rhetoric was taught in Greek in the early centuries of the Roman Empire and show the continued development of an Aristotelian tradition before acceptance of the reorganization of the subject by Hermogenes.
They complement each other in that the Anonymous was especially interested in debates about rhetorical theory, while Apsines' primary interest was in analysis of speeches of Demosthenes and other orators and in teaching declamation.
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Mervin R. Dilts, Ph.D., Indiana University, is Professor of Classics at New York University and the editor of the Scholia to Demosthenes and Aeschines, the Orations of Aeschines, and other Greek texts. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies.
George A. Kennedy, Ph.D., Harvard University, is Paddison Professor of Classics, Emeritus, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and former President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric. His publications include a translation of Aristotle, On Rhetoric and A New History of Classical Rhetoric.
George A. Kennedy, Ph.D., Harvard University, is Paddison Professor of Classics, Emeritus, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and former President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric. His publications include a translation of Aristotle, On Rhetoric and A New History of Classical Rhetoric.
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'Interested students and scholars […] who do not read Greek […] will now be able to make effective use of these primary sources of the professional rhetorical world of the Eastern Roman empire…The translations[…] are highly accurate.'
Harvey Yunis, Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
Harvey Yunis, Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
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249
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Students of the history of rhetoric, ancient philosophy, and intellectual history. Classical philologists.
