The Origins of Rhetoric in Ancient Greece (Ancient Society and History)
Cole, A. Thomas
ISBN 10: 0801851181 ISBN 13: 9780801851186
Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995
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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.
About the Author: Thomas Cole is professor of Greek and Latin at Yale University.
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Title: The Origins of Rhetoric in Ancient Greece (...
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good