Menander : a rhetor in context / Malcolm Heath.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heath, Malcolm.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oratory, Ancient.

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek.

Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek--Study and teaching--Turkey--Laodicea ad Lycum (Extinct city)--History--To 500.

Laodicea ad Lycum (Extinct city)--Intellectual life.

Laodicea ad Lycum (Extinct city).

Menander, of Laodicea, active 3rd century.

Menander.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book undertakes a fundamental assessment of Menander of Laodicea ('Menander Rhetor'), and of the nature and functions of rhetoric in later antiquity (second to fifth centuries AD). It examines Menander's fragments, collected here for the first time, in detail, showing that he was primarily an expert on judicial and deliberative oratory; a source-critical analysis of the Demosthenes scholia shows that his influential commentary on Demosthenes can be partially reconstructed. Itexplores the educational practices of the rhetorical schools, and shows that the skills which they taught still had

Contents:

Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I: Continuity and Innovation; Part II: Menander of Laodicea; Part III: Classroom and Career; Bibliography; Index of Passages Cited; General Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-349) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-281-90662-X

9786611906627

0-19-153178-2

OCLC:

302365678