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Persuasion : Greek rhetoric in action

Author: Ian Worthington
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Ian Worthington
ISBN: 0415081386 9780415081382 0415081394 9780415081399
OCLC Number: 28182046
Description: x, 273 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: edited by Ian Worthington.
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