Classical Rhetorics and Rhetoricians

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Classical Rhetorics and Rhetoricians Critical Studies and Sources

Michelle Ballif, ed., Michael G. Moran, ed.

ISBN: 0-313-32178-7

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32178-8

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414 pages

Greenwood Press

Publication: 3/30/2005

List Price: $209.95 (UK Sterling Price: £144.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

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This handsomely bound volume of studies supplies a much-needed resource for teachers and students of classical rhetoric: concise stand-alone summaries of ancient Greek and Roman writers who wrote about the practiced art of rhetoric....[t]his overview is bound to supply teachers, students, and libraries with one of the most accessible, useful, and diverse treatments of its subject currently available.
—The Classical Outlook Winter 2007
The current consensus among scholars is that rhetoric and its histories are culturally constructed rhetorical acts. This supposition has stimulated research that revises the history of rhetoric--history established by such venerable scholars as James Murphy and George Kennedy--into a more inclusive history of rhetorics. Although this book could not exist without the codified historical narrative it challenges by deemphasizing the universal in favor of the particular, clearly its time has come. Ballif and Moran provide an excellent and succinct introduction that surveys the current state of historical scholarship and establishes three goals: to encourage readers to think of rhetoric as including figures who challenge the established canon (the book includes nontraditional as well as traditional figures--women, poets, pre-Socratic philosophers, etc.); to reshuffle the deck of future influence by spotlighting less traditional figures; and to open readers' eyes to the contemporary application and significance of rhetoric....Although this volume will not displace the revised histories, it will supplement them and cannot be ignored. Essential. All collections; all levels.
—Choice 10/1/2005

Description: The engaging political speeches and persuasive writing of today are carefully crafted instances of rhetoric. The governing theories behind contemporary speakers and writers are deeply rooted in the classical world, where such great thinkers as Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintillian formulated strategies for effective discourse. This book includes alphabetically arranged entries on some 60 leading rhetoricians of antiquity, with each entry providing biographical information, a discussion of the rhetorician's works and theories, and primary and secondary bibliographies. Because of the lasting influence of these thinkers, this book is an essential guide to the foundations of modern expression.

Political speeches and persuasive writing are central to our modern democratic society and are carefully crafted to influence our thoughts and opinions. But what many people do not realize is that the theories behind such works are deeply rooted in the classical world. The great philosophers and statesmen of Greece and Rome formulated rules and strategies for effective argumentation, and their writings shaped the history of Western civilization for centuries. Because citizens of the modern world are exposed to so many attempts to influence their views, the theories of the ancient rhetoricians are as relevant today as in antiquity. This book is a guide to the lives and works of these influential classical figures.

Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a biography, a discussion of the rhetorician's works, and primary and secondary bibliographies. While some of the figures are relatively minor, others are among the most important names from classical civilization. The volume gives special attention to the contributions of women to ancient rhetoric. An introductory essay sketches the rough outline of classical rhetoric and its influence, while a bibliographical essay identifies the most important general works for further reading.

Table of Contents:

Introduction by Michelle Ballif and Michael G. Moran
Alcidamas by Neil O'Sullivan
Anaximenes, Rhetorica ad Alexandrum by Sean Patrick O'Rourke
Antiphon by Michael Gagarin
Anonymous Seguerianus by Parker Luchte
Apsines of Gadara by Sean Patrick O'Rourke
Aristides, Aelius by Jeffrey Walker
Aristotle by Janet Atwill
Aspasia of Miletus by Kathleen Ethel Welch and Karen D. Jobe
Attic Orators: Demosthenes, Aeschines, and Lysias by David Christopher Ryan
Augustinus, Aurelius (Saint) by Roxanne Mountford
Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus by Beth S. Bennett
Chrysostom, John by Justin Killian and David M. Timmerman
Cicero, Marcus Tullius by Richard Leo Enos
Corax and Tisias by Wilfred E. Major
Cornelia by D. Alexis Hart
Demetrius of Phaleron by Lara O'Sullivan
Demetrius, On Style by Scott G. Reed
Dio (Chrysostom) Cocceianus by George Pullman
Diogenes of Sinope by Victor J. Vitanza and D. Diane Davis
Dionysius of Halicarnassus by Jeffrey Walker
Diotima of Mantinea by C. Jan Swearingen
Dissoi Logoi by Edward Schiappa
Favorinus by Victor J. Vitanza
Fronto, M. Cornelius by Gary Hatch
Gorgias by John Poulakos
Gregory of Nazianzus by Roxanne Mountford
Heraclitus by John T. Kirby
Hermagoras of Temnos by Beth S. Bennett
Hermogenes of Tarsus by Janet B. Davis
Herodes Atticus by Angela Mitchell
Himerius by Charles Platter
Hippias of Elis by Jane Sutton
Homer by Patrick O'Sullivan
Hortensia by D. Alexis Hart
Hypatia by Elizabeth Ervin
Socrates by Takis Poulakos
Libanius by George Pullman
"Longinus," On the Sublime by Hans Kellner
Menander of Laodicea by Martin M. Jacobsen
Pericles by David M. Timmerman
Philodemus by Robert N. Gaines
Philostratus by Jerry L. Miller and Raymie McKerrow
Plato by Yun Lee Too
Pliny the Younger by Joy Connolly
Plutarch by Hans Kellner
Polemo, Marcus Antonius by Grant Boswell
Prodicus of Ceos by Neil O'Sullivan
Progymnasmata by Christy Desmet
Protagoras by Edward Schiappa
Pythagorean Women by Ekaterina Haskins
Quintilianus, Fabius by Joy Connolly
Rhetorica ad Herennium by Richard Leo Enos
Sappho by David M. Timmerman
Seneca the Elder by Beth S. Bennett
Seneca the Younger by Michael G. Moran
Sextus Empiricus by Robert N. Gaines
Socrates by Christopher Lyle Johnstone
Tacitus, Cornelius by Eizabeth Ervin
Theophrastus by Christy Desmet
Thrasymachus by Patrick O'Sullivan
Verginius Flavus by Daniel R. Frederick
Bibliographic Essay by Michelle Ballif and Michael G. Moran

About the Author: MICHELLE BALLIF is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Franklin College Writing Intensive Program at the University of Georgia. Her work has appeared in such journals as Rhetoric Review, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and JAC, and she is the co-editor of Twentieth-Century Rhetoric and Rhetoricians (Greenwood, 2000).

MICHAEL G. MORAN is Graduate Coordinator and Associate Professor of English at the University of Georgia. His many books include Research in Composition and Rhetoric (1984), Research in Technical Communication (1985), Research in Basic Writing (1990), Eighteenth-Century British and American Rhetorics and Rhetoricians (1994), and Twentieth-Century Rhetoric and Rhetoricians (2000), all available from Greenwood Press.

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