The Origins of Rhetoric in Ancient Greece

Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-0-8018-5118-6
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 306 g

Reihe: Ancient Society and History

Is it fair to judge early Green rhetoric by the standards of Plato and Aristotle? In The Origins of Rhetoric in Anceint Greece, Thomas Cole argues that it is not; yet this is precisely the path taken by current scholarship on the subject.

Arguing against this view, Cole sees early Greek rhetoric as largely unsystematic efforts to explore, more by example then by precept, all aspects of discouse. (One might as well term these efforts philosophy as rhetoric, since neither term was current at the time.) Replacing these early texts by such treatises as the Rhetoric of Aristotle, Cole explains, can only be understood as part of a gradual process, as artistic prose came to be disseminated in written texts and so available in a form that, for the first time, could be analyzed, evaluated, and closely imitated.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cole, Thomas

Cole, A. Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprechwissenschaft, Rhetorik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Bibliographical Note
Chapter 1. Rhetoric, Neorhetoric, Protorhetoric
Part I. The Prerhetorical Age
Chapter 2. Oral Poetry and Oral Eloquence
Chapter 3. Tact and Etiquette
Chapter 4. Allegory and Rhetoric
Part II. The Late Fifth Century
Chapter 5. Techne and Text
Chapter 6. The Range and Limits of Techne
Part III. The Fourth Century
Chapter 7. Rhetoric and Prose
Chapter 8. Rhetoric and Philosophy
Notes
General Index
Index of Passages Cited

Über Autor(innen)

Cole, A. Thomas
Thomas Cole is professor of Greek and Latin at Yale University.