Creating the Ancient Rhetorical Tradition

• Main Author: Viidebaum, Laura (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2021
• Series: Humanities
• Subjects: Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Plays, playscripts; Literary theory; classical literature; rhetoric
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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...