A companion to Roman rhetoric / edited by William Dominik and Jon Hall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dominik, William J.

Hall, Jon (Jon C. R.), 1961-

Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Series:

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Physical Description:

xix, 523 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2007.

Contents:

Confronting Roman rhetoric / William Dominik and Jon Hall

Modern critical approaches to Roman rhetoric / John Dugan

Greek rhetoric meets Rome : expansion, resistance, and acculturation / Sarah Culpepper Stroup

Native Roman rhetoric : Plautus and Terence / John Barsby

Roman oratory before Cicero : the Elder Cato and Gaius Gracchus / Enrica Sciarrino

Rhetorical education and social reproduction in the Republic and Early Empire / Anthony Corbeill

Virile tongues : rhetoric and masculinity / Joy Connolly

Oratory, rhetoric, and politics in the Republic / Michael C. Alexander

Oratory and politics in the Empire / Steven H. Rutledge

Roman senatorial oratory / John T. Ramsey

Panegyric / Roger Rees

Roman oratorical invective / Valentina Arena

Roman rhetorical handbooks / Robert N. Gaines

Elocutio : Latin prose style / Roderich Kirchner

Memory and the Roman orator / Jocelyn Penny Small

Wit and humor in Roman rhetoric / Edwin Rabbie

Oratorical delivery and the emotions : theory and practice / Jon Hall

Lost orators of Rome / Catherine Steel

Cicero as rhetorician / James M. May

Cicero as orator / Christopher P. Craig

Grammarians and rhetoricians / Charles McNelis

Roman declamation : the Elder Seneca and Quintilian / W. Martin Bloomer

Quintilian as rhetorician and teacher / Jorge Fernández López

Tacitus and Pliny on oratory / William Dominik

Rhetoric and the second sophistic / Graham Anderson

Roman rhetoric and its afterlife / John O. Ward

Rhetoric and literature at Rome / Matthew Fox

Rhetoric and epic : Vergil's Aeneid and Lucans Bellum civile / Emanuele Narducci

Rhetoric and satire : Horace, Persius, and Juvenal / Dan Hooley

Rhetoric and Ovid / Ulrike Auhagen

Rhetoric and the Younger Seneca / Marcus Wilson

Rhetoric and historiography / Cynthia Damon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [451]-486) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

ISBN:

1405120916

OCLC:

65301722

Publisher Number:

9781405120913