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The genres of rhetorical speeches in Greek and Roman antiquity / by Cristina Pepe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pepe, Cristina.
- Series:
- International studies in the history of rhetoric ; v. 5.
- International studies in the history of rhetoric ; volume 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rhetoric, Ancient.
- Literary form.
- Local Subjects:
- Literary form.
- Rhetoric, Ancient.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 618 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
- Summary:
- "In 'The Genres of Rhetorical Speeches in Greek and Roman Antiquity', Cristina Pepe offers a complete overview of the concept of speech genre within ancient rhetoric. By analyzing sources dating from the 5th-4th century BC, the author proves that the well-known classification in three rhetorical genres (deliberative, judicial, epideictic), introduced by Aristotle, was rooted in the debate concerning the forms and functions of the art of persuasion in classical Athens. Genres play a leading role in Aristotle's Rhetoric, and the analysis of considerable sections of the treatise shows profound links between the characterization of the rhetorical genres and Aristotelian philosophy as a whole. Finally, the volume explores the developments of the theory of genres in Hellenistic and Imperial rhetoric."--Back cover.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Speech Classification in the 5th and 4th Century BC
- Chapter 1 The Practice of Oratory in Classical Greece 9
- 1.1 Athenian Democracy and Public Speech Making 9
- 1.2 Other Forms of Public Speeches in the 5th and 4th Century 15
- Chapter 2 The Sophists and the Forms of λογ οζ 21
- 2.1 Gorgias' Encomium of Helen 21
- 2.2 The Origins of the Praise Speech 24
- Chapter 3 Thucydides. The Assembly and Democratic Deliberation 29
- Chapter 4 Plato 37
- 4.1 Plato as "literary critic": Poetic Genres and Forms 38
- 4.2 The Definition of Rhetoric in the Gorgias: The Audience and Oratorical Situations 41
- 4.3 The New Rhetoric in the Phaedrus 44
- 4.4 The Division of Rhetoric in the Sophist 51
- 4.5 Plato's Conception of Advice and Praise 56
- Chapter 5 Isocrates 61
- 5.1 Classifications of Discourses in Prose. Isocrates' λ ογ ο ς 61
- 5.2 Isocrates' Conception of Advice 67
- 5.3 Isocrates' Conception of επιδειειξι ς 71
- 5.4 Defining the Praise Speech 74
- Chapter 6 Demosthenes 79
- Chapter 7 The Rhetoric to Alexander 85
- 7.1 Incipit and Structure of the Treatise 86
- 7.1.1 Πρ οτρ οπη and απ ο τρ ο πη 87
- 7.1.2 'Εγχωιον and ψο;γος 89
- 7.1.3 'Απολογια and χατηγορια 91
- 7.1.4 The εξεταστιχον ειδος 92
- 7.1.4.1 'Εξετασις and εξεταζειν in the 5th and 4th Century BC 94
- 7.1.4.2 The εξετασις in the Rhetoric to Alexander 98
- 7.2 The Importance of γενη and ειδη in the Rhetoric to Alexander 102
- 7.2.1 The Epideictic Genre 103
- 7.2.2 The System of γενη 112
- 7.3 The Rhetoric to Alexander and the Rhetoric of Aristotle 118
- Part 2 The System of Genres in Aristotle's Rhetoric
- Chapter 8 Aristotle's Rhetoric 123
- Chapter 9 The Concept of Genre in Aristotle 127
- 9.1 The Genres of Poetry 128
- Chapter 10 The Three Genres of Rhetoric: Definition and Classification 133
- 10.1 The Epideictic Genre 138
- 10.1.1 The Figures of θεωρος and χριτης 138
- 10.1.2 Textual Authenticity (Rhetoric 1358b5-6) 143
- 10.1.3 Introduction of the Third Genre 144
- 10.1.4 The θεωρος as χριτης 146
- 10.1.5 A Hearer for the Epideictic Oratory: the θεωρος 152
- 10.1.6 The θεωρος and the Judgment on the δυναμις 156
- 10.2 The Deliberative Genre 159
- Chapter 11 Characterizing the Genres: Principles and Models 167
- 11.1 Communicative Functions of the Genres 167
- 11.2 The Ends of the Genres 170
- 11.3 The Temporality 174
- 11.4 The Genres and Forms of Rhetorical Argumentation 180
- 11.5 The ηθος and παθος and their Relation with the Genres 187
- Chapter 12 Genres and Topics 191
- 12.1 The Deliberative Topics 193
- 12.2 The Epideictic Topics 196
- 12.3 The Judicial Topics 204
- Chapter 13 The Style (λεξις) and Arrangement (ταξις) of the Genres 211
- 13.1 The Style 211
- 13.2 Arrangement and Parts of the Speech 222
- 13.2.1 Προοιμιον 223
- 13.2.2 Προθεσις 226
- 13.2.3 Διηγησις 227
- 13.2.4 Πιστις 230
- 13.2.5 'Επιλογος 232
- Chapter 14 Divisiones Aristoteleae 235
- Part 3 Rhetorical Genres in the Hellenistic and Imperial Ages
- Chapter 15 Oratorical Practice 243
- 15.1 The Hellenistic Age 243
- 15.2 Oratory in Rome 244
- 15.3 The Life of Eloquence Under the Empire 248
- Chapter 16 The Success of the Aristotelian Classification 257
- 16.1 The Sequence of Genres 261
- 16.2 Terminology 263
- 16.2.1 The Genre as Speech Class 263
- 16.2.2 The Vocabulary of the Three Genres 266
- 16.2.2.1 Deliberative Genre 267
- 16.2.2.2 Judicial Genre 270
- 16.2.2.3 Epideictic Genre 271
- 16.3 Identity of the Three Genres 279
- 16.3.1 Genres and αχροαται 280
- 16.3.2 Criteria for Identifying Genres 283
- Chapter 17 The Debate on the Scheme's Validity: Problems and Solutions 291
- 17.1 The Three Genres as Subsets of More Comprehensive Divisions 291
- 17.1.1 Genres and υποθεσεις 291
- 17.1.2 Bipartition of Speeches 294
- 17.2 The Extension of Number of Genres 298
- 17.2.1 A Fourth Genre of Rhetoric 299
- 17.2.1.1 The εντευχτιχον γενος 299
- 17.2.1.2 The ομιλητιχον γενος 301
- 17.2.1.3 The ιστοριχον γενος 303
- 17.2.1.4 The αντιρρησις 317
- 17.2.2 Towards a Proliferation of Genres 320
- 17.3 The Three Genres and Their Internal Divisions 323
- 17.3.1 The Epideictic Species 326
- 17.3.2 Principles of Codification and Classification of the Genres: Panegyrical and Ambassadorial Speeches 329
- Chapter 18 The Theory of Genres in the Rhetorical System 337
- 18.1 Inventio, Dispositio, Elocutio 340
- 18.2 Inventio: The Topics 340
- 18.2.1 The τελιχα χεφαλαια 344
- 18.2.2 Prosopographical and Epideictic Topics 345
- 18.2.3 Stasis Theory and the Three Genres 346
- 18.2.4 Effects and Significance of the Connection between Lists of Topics 350
- 18.3 From Inventio to Dispositio: The Order of the Topics 350
- 18.4 Dispositio 351
- 18.5 Elocutio 355
- Chapter 19 Classifying, Describing, Interpreting Speeches 363
- 19.1 The Mixture of Genres 368
- Chapter 20 Rhetorical Genres and Pedagogical Practices 375
- 20.1 The Preparatory Exercises 375
- 20.2 Declamation 378.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9004249842
- 9789004249844
- OCLC:
- 854857731
- Publisher Number:
- 99960495381
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