A companion to Roman rhetoric

✍ Scribed by Dominik, William J.;Hall, Jon C. R

• Publisher: Blackwell
• Year: 2013;2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 546
• Series: Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Part V. Rhetoric and Roman literature. Rhetoric and literature at Rome / Matthew Fox -- Rhetoric and epic : Vergil's Aeneid and Lucans Bellum civile / Emanuele Narducci -- Rhetoric and satire : Horace, Persius, and Juvenal / Dan Hooley -- Rhetoric and Ovid / Ulrike Auhagen -- Rhetoric and the Younger Seneca / Marcus Wilson -- Rhetoric and historiography / Cynthia Damon -- Bibliography -- Glossary of technical terms.;A Companion to Roman Rhetoric introduces the reader to the wide-ranging importance of rhetoric in Roman culture. A guide to Roman rhetoric from its origins to the Renaissance and beyond. Comprises original essays by leading international scholars. Explores major figures Cicero and Quintilian in-depth. Covers a broad range of topics such as rhetoric and politics, gender, status, self-identity, education, and literature.

✦ Table of Contents

Part I. Approaching rhetoric. Confronting Roman rhetoric / William Dominik and Jon Hall --
Modern critical approaches to Roman rhetoric / John Dugan --
Greek rhetoric meets Rome : expansion, resistance, and acculturation / Sarah Culpepper Stroup --
Native Roman rhetoric : Plautus and Terence / John Barsby --
Roman oratory before Cicero : the Elder Cato and Gaius Gracchus / Enrica Sciarrino. Part II. Rhetoric and its social context. Rhetorical education and social reproduction in the Republic and Early Empire / Anthony Corbeill --
Virile tongues : rhetoric and masculinity / Joy Connolly --
Oratory, rhetoric, and politics in the Republic / Michael C. Alexander --
Oratory and politics in the Empire / Steven H. Rutledge --
Roman senatorial oratory / John T. Ramsey --
Panegyric / Roger Rees --
Roman oratorical invective / Valentina Arena. Part III. Systematizing rhetoric. Roman rhetorical handbooks / Robert N. Gaines --
Elocutio : Latin prose style / Roderich Kirchner --
Memory and the Roman orator / Jocelyn Penny Small --
Wit and humor in Roman rhetoric / Edwin Rabbie --
Oratorical delivery and the emotions : theory and practice / Jon Hall. Part IV. Rhetoricians and orators. Lost orators of Rome / Catherine Steel --
Cicero as rhetorician / James M. May --
Cicero as orator / Christopher P. Craig --
Grammarians and rhetoricians / Charles McNelis --
Roman declamation : the Elder Seneca and Quintilian / W. Martin Bloomer --
Quintilian as rhetorician and teacher / Jorge Fernández López --
Tacitus and Pliny on oratory / William Dominik --
Rhetoric and the second sophistic / Graham Anderson --
Roman rhetoric and its afterlife / John O. Ward. Part V. Rhetoric and Roman literature. Rhetoric and literature at Rome / Matthew Fox --
Rhetoric and epic : Vergil's Aeneid and Lucans Bellum civile / Emanuele Narducci --
Rhetoric and satire : Horace, Persius, and Juvenal / Dan Hooley --
Rhetoric and Ovid / Ulrike Auhagen --
Rhetoric and the Younger Seneca / Marcus Wilson --
Rhetoric and historiography / Cynthia Damon --
Bibliography --
Glossary of technical terms.

✦ Subjects

Latein;Latin. retorik;Rhetorik;Rhetoric, Ancient;Electronic books;Aufsatzsammlung