The orator in action and theory in Greece and Rome. Edited by Cecil W. Wooten

Wooten, Cecil W.; Kennedy, George A. (Alexander) (ed.)

ISBN 10: 9004122133 / ISBN 13: 9789004122130

Published by Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, Boston, 2001., 2001

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Large octavo (245 x 165 mm), publisher's illustrated hardcover, XVII (+I), 172 (+2) pp., with a few b/w-illustrations in the text, previous owner's stamp to front fly leaf (Exlibris H. S. Versnel), a well preserved copy. [MnS - Mnemosyne Supplements; 225]. - ISBN: 9004122133. - Contents/Inhalt : How good should an orator be? / Ã ivind Andersen -- What the laws have prejudged : [ParagrafÄ"] and early issue theory / Edwin Carawan -- The superfluous bag : rhetoric and display in the Histories of Herodotus / Sheila Murnaghan -- Rhetoric, art, and myth : Isocrates and Busiris / Terry L. Papillon -- Julius Caesar, the orator of paradox / A.D. Leeman -- Shifting charge and shifty argument in Cicero's Speech for Sestius / Christopher Craig -- Cicero's Pro Milone / James M. May -- Returning to Tacitus' Dialogus / Michael Winterbottom -- Figured speeches : "Dionysius," Art of rhetoric, VIII-IX / D.A. Russell. Chiefly papers presented at a conference held October 1998, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in honor of George Kennedy.; Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; "Publications of George Alexander Kennedy" --P. [ix]-xvii. ||| Oratory, Ancient; Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek â " History and criticism; Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin â " History and criticism â "- Oratorium, Antike; Reden, Ansprachen usw., Griechisch â " Geschichte und Kritik; Reden, Ansprachen usw., Latein â " Geschichte und Kritik - [00B | SOD | oR ] 490 g.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The orator in action and theory in Greece and Rome. Edited by Cecil W. Wooten
• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, Boston, 2001.
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004122133
• ISBN 13: 9789004122130
• Binding: Hardcover
• Weight: 490 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • ANTIKE - Classical Antiquity - Mnemosyne Supple...

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Synopsis

This volume is a collection of essays, written by authorities in the field, on many aspects of ancient rhetoric. These essays deal both with the theory of rhetoric and the practice of oratory and are quite diverse both in tone and audience envisioned. Some of them deal with very basic questions such as how good an orator should appear to be; others deal with very technical matters such as theoretical considerations of issue theory or "figured speeches". Some are focussed on the actual practice of oratory in speeches such as those of Cicero and Caesar; others deal with manifestations of oratory in historical works such as the Histories of Herodotus or reflections on the nature of oratory in works like the Dialogus of Tacitus. One considers parallel developments in rhetorical and artistic treatments of the legend of Busiris.

About the Author

Cecil W. Wooten, Ph.D. (1971) in Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina. He is the author of Cicero’s Philippics and their Demosthenic Model (1983) and translator of Hermogenes’ On Types of Style (1987).