Magic and Rhetoric in Ancient Greece
β Jacqueline de Romilly
π Library
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1975
π Harvard University Press
π English
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Magic and Rhetoric in Ancient Greece
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- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Year
- 1975
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 116
- Series
- Carl Newell Jackson lectures 1974.
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Frontmatter --
Acknowledgments --
Contents --
I. Gorgias and Magic --
II. Plato and Conjurers --
III. Rhetoric and the Classification of Arts in the Fourth Century B.C. --
IV. Logic versus Magic : Aristotle and Later Writers --
Notes --
Index.
β¦ Subjects
Griechische Literatur;Rhetoric, Ancient;Rhetorik;Rhetoric -- Magical aspects -- Ancient Greek theories;Classical Studies, other;Classical Studies;Grec (langue) -- RhΓ©torique;Greek literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc;LittΓ©rature grecque -- Histoire et critique
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