Creating the Ancient Rhetorical Tradition

• Huvudskapare: Viidebaum, Laura (auth)
• Materialtyp: Elektronisk Bokavsnitt
• Språk: engelska
• Publicerad: Cambridge University Press 2021
• Serie: Humanities
• Ämnen: Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Plays, playscripts; Literary theory; classical literature; rhetoric
• Länkar: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Examines how different aspects of rhetorical theory gradually came to be associated from Plato's Phaedrus onwards with the two outstanding writers in fourth-century BCE Athens, Lysias and Isocrates, and how in first-century BCE Rome Dionysius of Halicarnassus proposed to unite them to create th...