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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dominik, William J.

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

Series:

Blackwell companions to the ancient world.

Blackwell companions to the ancient world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (546 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Blackwell, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A Companion to Roman Rhetoric introduces the reader to the wide-ranging importance of rhetoric in Roman culture.A guide to Roman rhetoric from its origins to the Renaissance and beyondComprises 32 original essays by leading international scholarsExplores major figures Cicero and Quintilian in-depthCovers a broad range of topics such as rhetoric and politics, gender, status, self-identity, education, and literatureProvides suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapterIncludes a glossary of technical terms and an index of proper names and rhetorica

Contents:

A COMPANION TO ROMAN RHETORIC; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Texts and Abbreviations; Part I Approaching Rhetoric; 1 Confronting Roman Rhetoric; 2 Modern Critical Approaches to Roman Rhetoric; 3 Greek Rhetoric Meets Rome: Expansion, Resistance, and Acculturation; 4 Native Roman Rhetoric: Plautus and Terence; 5 Roman Oratory Before Cicero: The Elder Cato and Gaius Gracchus; Part II Rhetoric and Its Social Context; 6 Rhetorical Education and Social Reproduction in the Republic and Early Empire; 7 Virile Tongues: Rhetoric and Masculinity

8 Oratory, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Republic9 Oratory and Politics in the Empire; 10 Roman Senatorial Oratory; 11 Panegyric; 12 Roman Oratorical Invective; Part III Systematizing Rhetoric; 13 Roman Rhetorical Handbooks; 14 Elocutio: Latin Prose Style; 15 Memory and the Roman Orator; 16 Wit and Humor in Roman Rhetoric; 17 Oratorical Delivery and the Emotions: Theory and Practice; Part IV Rhetoricians and Orators; 18 Lost Orators of Rome; 19 Cicero as Rhetorician; 20 Cicero as Orator; 21 Grammarians and Rhetoricians; 22 Roman Declamation: The Elder Seneca and Quintilian

23 Quintilian as Rhetorician and Teacher24 Tacitus and Pliny on Oratory; 25 Rhetoric and the Second Sophistic; 26 Roman Rhetoric and Its Afterlife; Part V Rhetoric and Roman Literature; 27 Rhetoric and Literature at Rome; 28 Rhetoric and Epic: Vergil's Aeneid and Lucan's Bellum Civile; 29 Rhetoric and Satire: Horace, Persius, and Juvenal; 30 Rhetoric and Ovid; 31 Rhetoric and the Younger Seneca; 32 Rhetoric and Historiography; Bibliography; Glossary of Technical Terms; Index Locorum; General Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610743582

9781782684909

1782684905

9781280743580

1280743581

9780470984291

0470984295

9781405185004

1405185007

9780470996485

047099648X

9781405171984

1405171987

OCLC:

86069267