THE ORIGINS OF RHETORIC IN ANCIENT GREECE Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991

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Year of publication

1991

Author

Cole, A. Thomas

Publishers

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Keyword

Ancient Greek Language Greek Literature Classical Greek & Roman, Rhetoric Language & Phrase Books Linguistics Greece Words &, Language

Cover description

Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket

Binding description

Hardcover ISBN 0801840554

Description

Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Erratum page tipped in. ; Is it fair to judge early Greek rhetoric by the standards of Plato and Aristotle? This text argues that it is not, and yet this is the path taken by current scholarship on the subject. Arguing against this view, this work sees early Greek rhetoric as largely unsystematic efforts to explore, more by means than by precept, all aspects of discourse. Replacing these early text by such treatises as the "Rhetoric" of Aristotle, Cole explains, can only be understood as part of a gradual process, as artistic prose came to be disseminated in written texts and so available in a form that, for the first time, be analyzed, evaluated and closely imitated. ; Ancient Society and History; 191 pages