The orator in action and theory in Greece and Rome

• Other Authors: Wooten, Cecil W. 1945-
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Leiden Boston Koln Brill 2001
• Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum (Brill) 225
• Subjects: Ομιλίες, λόγοι κλπ., Ελληνικοί > Ιστορία και κριτική; Ομιλίες, λόγοι κλπ., Λατινικοί > Ιστορία και κριτική; Ρητορική, Αρχαία

Table of Contents:

• How good should an orator be? / Oivind Andersen What the laws have prejudged : [παραγραφή] and early issue theory / Edwin Carawan The superfluous bag : rhetoric and display in the Histories of Herodotus / Sheila 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 Figured speeches : "Dionysius," Art of rhetoric, VIII-IX / D. A. Russell