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The Orator in Action and Theory in Greece and Rome
Essays in Honor of George A. Kennedy
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Edited by:
Cecil Wooten
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2001
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This volume is a collection of essays, written by authorities in the field, on many aspects of ancient rhetoric. These essays deal both with the theory of rhetoric and the practice of oratory and are quite diverse both in tone and audience envisioned. Some of them deal with very basic questions such as how good an orator should appear to be; others deal with very technical matters such as theoretical considerations of issue theory or "figured speeches". Some are focussed on the actual practice of oratory in speeches such as those of Cicero and Caesar; others deal with manifestations of oratory in historical works such as the Histories of Herodotus or reflections on the nature of oratory in works like the Dialogus of Tacitus. One considers parallel developments in rhetorical and artistic treatments of the legend of Busiris.
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Cecil W. Wooten, Ph.D. (1971) in Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina. He is the author of Cicero’s Philippics and their Demosthenic Model (1983) and translator of Hermogenes’ On Types of Style (1987).
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September 18, 2017
eBook ISBN:
9789004350984
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174
eBook ISBN:
9789004350984
Audience(s) for this book
All those interested in the development of rhetorical theory and the practice of oratory in the ancient world.
