History of Rhetoric, Volume I

History of Rhetoric, Volume I The Art of Persuasion in Greece - Princeton Legacy Library

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A concern for the art of persuasion, as rhetoric was anciently defined, was a principal feature of Greek intellectual life. In this study of the complex of subjects labeled "rhetoric," the author explores rhetorical theory and practice from the fifth to the first centuries B.C. Beginning with the creative rhetoric of the pre-Socratic era, the study progresses through the time of Aristotle and the Attic orators and concludes with the ossification of rhetoric into a pedantic discipline during the Hellenistic period.

Originally published in 1963.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780691625324
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
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Language: English
Number of pages: 364
Weight: 556g
Height: 236mm
Width: 241mm
Spine width: 23mm