Persuasion : Greek rhetoric in action / edited by Ian Worthington. - London ; New York : Routledge, 1994. - x, 273 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-272) and index.

From orality to rhetoric: an intellectual transformation / Carol G. Thomas and Edward Kent Webb -- Rhetorical means of persuasion / Christopher Carey -- Probability and persuasion: Plato and early Greek rhetoric / Michael Gagarin -- Classical rhetoric and modern theories of discourse / David Cohen -- Power and oratory in democratic Athens: Demosthenes 21, against Meidias / Josiah Ober -- History and oratorical exploitation / Ian Worthington -- Law and oratory / Edward M. Harris -- Epic and rhetoric / Peter Toohey -- Tragedy and rhetoric / Victor Bers -- Comedy and rhetoric / Phillip Harding -- Philosophy and rhetoric / Stephen Halliwell -- The Canon of the ten Attic orators / Ian Worthington.

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Greek literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Literary form--History--To 1500.
Persuasion (Rhetoric)--History--To 1500.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Oratory, Ancient.
Greek literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Retorica
Retorica.
Grieks.
Redenaars.
Beinvloeding.
Griekse oudheid.
Littérature grecque--Histoire et critique--Thâeorie, etc.
Grec (Langue)--Rhâetorique.
Persuasion (Rhétorique)
Rhâetorique ancienne.
âEloquence antique.
Genres littâeraires.

Rhetoric History Greece

PA3074 / .P426 1994

808/.00938