Greek Rhetoric Before Aristotle
Published on 29. November 2011
300 pages
978-1-60235-214-8 (ISBN)
Description
Recent archaeological discoveries, coupled with long-lost but now available epigraphical evidence, and a more expansive view of literary sources, provide new and dramatic evidence of the emergence of rhetoric in ancient Greece. Many of these artifacts, gathered through onsite fieldwork in Greece, are analyzed in this revised and expanded edition of Greek Rhetoric Before Aristotle. This new evidence, along with recent developments in research methods and analysis, reveal clearly that long before Aristotle's Rhetoric, long before rhetoric was even stabilized into formal systems of study in Classical Athens, nascent, pre-disciplinary "rhetorics" were emerging throughout Greece.
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Richard Leo Enos is Professor and holder of the Lillian Radford Chair of Rhetoric and Composition at Texas Christian University. His research concentration is in classical rhetoric with an emphasis in the relationship between oral and written discourse. He is past president of the American Society for the History of Rhetoric (1980-1981) and the Rhetoric Society of America (1990-1991). He received the RSA George E. Yoos Award Distinguished Service and was inducted as an RSA Fellow in 2006. He is the founding editor of Advances in the History of Rhetoric and the editor (with David E. Beard) of Advances in the History of Rhetoric: The First Six Years (2007, Parlor Press). He is also the author of Roman Rhetoric: Revolution and the Greek Influence, Revised and Expanded Edition (2008, Parlor Press).
Content
- Front cover
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Foreword to the Revised and Expanded Edition
- Preface
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Recovering the Lost Art of Researching the History of Rhetoric
- I. Emerging Notions of Rhetoric
- II. Oral and Literate Composition in the Pre-Rhetorical Period
- III. Literate Rhetoric in the Archaic Period
- IV. The Birth of Hellenic Rhetoric and the Growth of the Sicilian Sophistic
- V. Significant Contributors to Sicilian Rhetoric
- VI. The "Art" of Literate Rhetoric
- VII. The Secret Composition Practices of the Ancient Spartans
- VIII. The Platonic Rejection of Sophistic Rhetoric and Its Hellenic Reception
- IX. Conclusion
- Works Consulted
- Works Cited
- Index
- About the Author
- Back cover
