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Title Persuasion : Greek rhetoric in action / edited by Ian Worthington
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1994

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Description x, 277 pages ; 23 cm
Contents From orality to rhetoric: an intellectual transformation / Carol G. Thomas and Edward Kent Webb -- Rhetorical means of persuasion / Christopher Carey -- Probability and persuasion: Plato and early Greek rhetoric / Michael Gagarin -- Classical rhetoric and modern theories of discourse / David Cohen -- Power and oratory in democratic Athens: Demosthenes 21, against Meidias / Josiah Ober -- History and oratorical exploitation / Ian Worthington -- Law and oratory / Edward M. Harris -- Epic and rhetoric / Peter Toohey -- Tragedy and rhetoric / Victor Bers -- Comedy and rhetoric / Phillip Harding -- Philosophy and rhetoric / Stephen Halliwell -- The Canon of the ten Attic orators / Ian Worthington
Summary An exciting and accessible introduction to rhetoric and oratory in ancient Greece. All Greek and Latin is translated
Analysis Greece
Rhetoric History
Greece
Rhetoric History
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Rhetoric, Ancient.
Greek literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Literary form -- History -- To 1500.
Literary form.
Oratory, Ancient.
Persuasion (Rhetoric)
Literary form -- History -- To 500
Persuasion (Rhetoric) in literature.
Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500.
Author Worthington, Ian.
LC no. 93002061
ISBN 0415081386
0415081394 (paperback)