Magic and Rhetoric in Ancient Greece
โ Romilly, Jacqueline de
๐ Library
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1975
๐ Harvard University Press
๐ English
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Magic and Rhetoric in Ancient Greece
โ Scribed by Jacqueline de Romilly
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- Harvard University Press
- Year
- 1975
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 116
- Series
- Carl Newell Jackson Lectures; 10
- Edition
- Reprint 2013
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- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
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
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