Classical Rhetorics and Rhetoricians Critical Studies and Sources

Subjects:

• Communications » Rhetoric/Speech
• History » Classical Studies
• Literature » World Literature
• Philosophy » History of Philosophy

Reviews:

• 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 October 2005
• 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

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