Ancient schools of rhetoric taught students how to devise arguments in legal and political disputes, and how to express them. This reassessment of the history and social significance of rhetoric in late antiquity shows how it was taught, and why the skills it promoted were still believed to have a direct application. Num Pages: 394 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; CFG; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658. . 2004. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Menander: A Rhetor in Context
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication Date: 2004
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0199259208
ISBN 13: 9780199259205
Binding: Hardcover
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Ancient schools of rhetoric taught students how to devise arguments in legal and political disputes, and how to express them. Many scholars believe that these techniques increasingly lost their practical relevance under the Roman Empire. This detailed reassessment of the history and social significance of rhetoric in late antiquity shows how it was taught, and why the skills it promoted were still believed to have a direct application in the subsequent careers of the rhetoricians' pupils.

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Malcolm Heath is Professor of Greek in the Department of Classics, University of Leeds.

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