ART OF PERSUASION IN GREECE

Kennedy, George A.

ISBN 10: 0691060088 / ISBN 13: 9780691060088

Published by Princeton University Press, 1963

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Underlining in marker to some pages with notes to endpapers. Former owner's name on inner cover and on ffep. Foxing to top of textblock.; 350 pages; Explores rhetorical theory and practice from the fifth to first centuries B. C. Begins with the practical, creative rhetoric of the pre-Socratic era, progresses through the time of Aristotle and the Attic orators, and concludes with the ossification of rhetoric into a sterile, pedantic discipline during the Hellenistic period.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ART OF PERSUASION IN GREECE
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 1963
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691060088
• ISBN 13: 9780691060088
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Classical Studies
  • Linguistics
  • Greek History

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Synopsis

A concern for the art of persuasion, as rhetoric was anciently defined, was a principal feature of Greek intellectual life. In this study of the complex of subjects labeled "rhetoric," the author explores rhetorical theory and practice from the fifth to the first centuries B.C. Beginning with the creative rhetoric of the pre-Socratic era, the study progresses through the time of Aristotle and the Attic orators and concludes with the ossification of rhetoric into a pedantic discipline during the Hellenistic period.

Originally published in 1963.

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