The art of persuasion in Greece / by George Kennedy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennedy, George A. (George Alexander), 1928-2022, author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1963.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A concern for the art of persuasion, as rhetoric was anciently defined, was a principal feature of Greek intellectual life. In this study of the complex of subjects labeled "rhetoric," the author explores rhetorical theory and practice from the fifth to the first centuries B.C. Beginning with the creative rhetoric of the pre-Socratic era, the study progresses through the time of Aristotle and the Attic orators and concludes with the ossification of rhetoric into a pedantic discipline during the Hellenistic period. Originally published in 1963.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Front matter

Foreword

Contents

Abbreviations

Chapter One. Introduction: The Nature of Rhetoric

Chapter Two. Techniques of Persuasion in Greek Literature before 400 B.C.

Chapter Three. Early Rhetorical Theory, Corax to Aristotle

Chapter Four. The Attic Orators

Chapter Five. Hellenistic Rhetoric to the Arrival in Rome of Dionysius of Halicarnassus

Appendix. The Introduction to "On the ancient orators" by Dionysius of Halicarnassus

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliography.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-691-65178-7

1-4008-7572-2

OCLC:

927444202