| The Origins of Rhetoric in Ancient Greece Revised Edition Contributor(s): Cole, Thomas (Author), Cole, A. Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801851181 ISBN-13: 9780801851186 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1995 Annotation: Cole sees early Greek rhetoric as largely unsystematic efforts to explore, more by example than by precept, all aspects of discourse. (One might as well term these efforts philosophy as rhetoric, since neither term was current at the time.) |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical - History | Ancient - Greece |
| Dewey: 808.009 |
| LCCN: 90036983 |
| Series: Ancient Society and History |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.51" W x 8.46" (0.57 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book argues that it is not fair to judge early Greek rhetoric by the standards of Plato and Aristotle... it should be seen, rather, as a series of largely unsystematic efforts to explore, more by example rather than by precept, all aspects of discourse. As artistic prose came to be disseminated in written texts and so available in a form that could be analyzed, evaluated and imitated, the forms of the early texts evolve into teatises such as Aristotle's Rhetoric . |
Contributor Bio(s): Cole, A. Thomas: - Thomas Cole is professor of Greek and Latin at Yale University. |