Two Greek Rhetorical Treatises form the Roman Empire: Introduction, Text, and Translation of the Arts of Rhetoric Attributed to Anonymous Seguerianus and to Apsines of Gadara. Edited by Mervin R. Dilts and George A. Kennedy (Mnemosyne Bibliotheca Classica Batava)

DILTS, MERVIN R., and KENNEDY, GEORGE A. (eds)

ISBN 10: 9004107282 / ISBN 13: 9789004107281

Published by Brill, 1997

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• Title: Two Greek Rhetorical Treatises form the Roman Empire: Introduction, Text, and Translation of the Arts of Rhetoric Attributed to Anonymous Seguerianus and to Apsines of Gadara. Edited by Mervin R. Dilts and George A. Kennedy (Mnemosyne Bibliotheca Classica Batava)
• Publisher: Brill
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004107282
• ISBN 13: 9789004107281
• Binding: Binding sound, text unmarked
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good+
• Signed: No ownership marks
• Seller catalogs:
  • Classics & Ancient 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.