Two Greek Rhetorical Treatises from the Roman Empire - Introduction, Text, and Translation of the Arts of Rhetoric, Attributed to Anonymous Seguerianus

Dilts Mervin R., Kennedy George (Eds)

ISBN 10: 9004107282 / ISBN 13: 9789004107281

Published by Brill Academic Publications, Leiden - New York - Köln, 1997

About this Item

xxvi - 249 pp. Brill Academic Publications, Leiden - New York - Köln 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Mnemosyne - Bibliotheca Classica Batava 168. Greek texts with English translations. Grey linen covers with gilt spine and cover lettering; Cover slightly stained and discolored. Clean and unmarked inside. Otherwise, a good/very good copy. Ex. library of the Library of the Ghent University: usual labels, stamps and numbers.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Two Greek Rhetorical Treatises from the Roman Empire - Introduction, Text, and Translation of the Arts of Rhetoric, Attributed to Anonymous Seguerianus
• Publisher: Brill Academic Publications, Leiden - New York - Köln
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004107282
• ISBN 13: 9789004107281
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Weight: 0.8 kilograms
• Seller catalogs:
  • Greek Literature
  • Ancient Greece
  • History

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Synopsis

A revised Greek Text (the first in a century) and English translation (the first in any modern language) of the Art of Political Speech by a writer known as the Anonymous Seguerianus (ca. A.D. 200) and the Art of Rhetoric of Apsines of Gadara (ca. A.D. 230), with introduction, notes, and indices.
These works provide evidence of how rhetoric was taught in Greek in the early centuries of the Roman Empire and show the continued development of an Aristotelian tradition before acceptance of the reorganization of the subject by Hermogenes.
They complement each other in that the Anonymous was especially interested in debates about rhetorical theory, while Apsines' primary interest was in analysis of speeches of Demosthenes and other orators and in teaching declamation.

About the Author

Mervin R. Dilts, Ph.D., Indiana University, is Professor of Classics at New York University and the editor of the Scholia to Demosthenes and Aeschines, the Orations of Aeschines, and other Greek texts. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies.
George A. Kennedy, Ph.D., Harvard University, is Paddison Professor of Classics, Emeritus, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and former President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric. His publications include a translation of Aristotle, On Rhetoric and A New History of Classical Rhetoric.