The Art of Persuasion in Greece (A History of Rhetoric, vol. 1)

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 5
Foreword......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Bibliographical Abbreviations......Page 11
1. Introduction: the nature of rhetoric......Page 17
2. Techniques of Persuasion in Greek Literature before 400 B.C.......Page 40
3. Early Rhetorical Theory, Corox to Aristotle......Page 66
Corax and Tisias......Page 72
Gorgias......Page 75
Thrasymachus......Page 82
Isocrates......Page 84
Plato's Phaedrus......Page 88
Theodectes......Page 94
The Development of Aristotle's Rhetoric......Page 96
Aristotle on Invention......Page 101
The Third Book of Aristotle's Rhetoric......Page 117
The Rhetorica ad Alexandrum......Page 128
4. The Attic Orators......Page 139
Judicial Oratory from Antiphon to Isaeus......Page 140
Epideictic Oratory......Page 166
Deliberative Oratory......Page 217
Demosthenes......Page 220
Aeschines......Page 250
The Lesser Orators of the Later Fourth Century......Page 260
5. Hellenistic Rhetoric to the Arrival in Rome of Dionysius of Halicarnassus......Page 278
Theophrastus......Page 287
Demetrius......Page 298
The Stoics......Page 304
Other Philosophical Schools......Page 314
Asianism......Page 315
Hermagoras......Page 317
The Quarrel between Rhetoric and Philosophy......Page 335
Atticism......Page 344
Appendix: Introduction to "On the ancient orators" by Dionysius of Halicarnassus......Page 351
Index......Page 355