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

Other author Wooten, Cecil W., 1945-
Other author Kennedy, George A. (George Alexander), 1928-2022
Format Book
Publication InfoLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001.
Descriptionxvii, 172 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

SeriesMnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 224
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 224. ^A492133
Contents How good should an orator be? / Øivind Andersen -- What the laws have prejudged : [Paragrafē] and early issue theory / Edwin Carawan -- The superfluous bag : rhetoric and display in the Histories of Herodotus / Sheile 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 -- Firgured speeches : "Dionysius," Art of rhetoric, VIII-IX / D.A. Russell.
General noteChiefly papers presented at a conference held Oct. 1998, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in honor of George Kennedy.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2001043199
ISBN9004122133 (acid-free paper)

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