Onderwerpen

Tot ca. 1600 | Griekse letterkunde | Opstellen

Taal

Engels

Serie

Studies in rhetoric/communication

Meer informatie

Uitgever

The University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, South Carolina

Verschenen

2015

ISBN

9781611173956

Kenmerken

260 pagina's

Aantekening

Met literatuuropgave en index

Homer's Iliad and the epic tradition of heroic eloquence -- Heraclitus and the revelation of logos -- Aeschylus's Persians and the birth of tragedy -- Protagoras and the promise of politics -- Gorgias's Helen and the powers of action and fabrication -- Thucydides and the political history of power -- Aristophanes's Birds and the corrective of comedy -- Plato's Protagoras and the art of tragicomedy -- Isocrates's "Nicocles" and the hymn to hegemony -- Aristotle on rhetoric and civilization