Rhetoric before and beyond the Greeks

Rhetoric before and beyond the Greeks......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
The Birth of Rhetoric by William W. Hallo......Page 32
The Rhetoric of Origins and the Other: Reading the Ancient Figure of Enheduanna by Roberta Binkley......Page 54
Neo-Assyrian Rhetoric: The Example of the Third Campaign of Sennacherib (704–681 B.C.) by Paul Y. Hoskisson and Grant M. Boswell......Page 72
Ancient Egyptian Rhetoric: It All Comes Down to Maat by Carol S. Lipson......Page 86
Law, Rhetoric, and Gender in Ramesside Egypt by Deborah Sweeney......Page 106
The Use of Eloquence: The Confucian Perspective by George Q. Xu......Page 122
Confucian Silence and Remonstration: A Basis for Deliberation? by Arabella Lyon......Page 138
“Nothing Can Be Accomplished If the Speech Does Not Sound Agreeable”: Rhetoric and the Invention of Classical Chinese Discourse by Yameng Liu......Page 154
Pentateuchal Rhetoric and the Voice of the Aaronides by David Metzger......Page 172
The Art of Rhetoric at Rhodes: An Eastern Rival to the Athenian Representation of Classical Rhetoric by Richard Leo Enos......Page 190
Story–List–Sanction: A Cross-Cultural Strategy of Ancient Persuasion by James W. Watts......Page 204
Song to Speech: The Origins of Early Epitaphia in Ancient Near Eastern Women’s Lamentations by C. Jan Swearingen......Page 220
Suggestions for Teaching Ancient Rhetorics......Page 234
Contributors......Page 264
B......Page 268
D......Page 269
H......Page 270
M......Page 271
P......Page 272
T......Page 273
Z......Page 274