Persuasion : Greek rhetoric in action / edited by Ian Worthington.
An exciting and accessible introduction to rhetoric and oratory in ancient Greece. All Greek and Latin is translated.
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1994.
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Table of Contents:
- From orality to rhetoric: an intellectual transformation / Carol G. Thomas and Edward Kent Webb
- Rhetorical means of persuasion / Christopher Carey
- Probability and persuasion: Plato and early Greek rhetoric / Michael Gagarin
- Classical rhetoric and modern theories of discourse / David Cohen
- Power and oratory in democratic Athens: Demosthenes 21, against Meidias / Josiah Ober
- History and oratorical exploitation / Ian Worthington
- Law and oratory / Edward M. Harris
- Epic and rhetoric / Peter Toohey
- Tragedy and rhetoric / Victor Bers
- Comedy and rhetoric / Phillip Harding
- Philosophy and rhetoric / Stephen Halliwell
- The Canon of the ten Attic orators / Ian Worthington.