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