Menander: A Rhetor in Context - Hardcover

Heath, Malcolm

 
9780199259205: Menander: A Rhetor in Context
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0199259208 ISBN 13: 9780199259205
Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2004

Synopsis

This book undertakes a fundamental assessment of Menander of Laodicea ('Menander Rhetor'), and of the nature and functions of rhetoric in later antiquity (second to fifth centuries AD). It examines Menander's fragments, collected here for the first time, in detail, showing that he was primarily an expert on judicial and deliberative oratory; a source-critical analysis of the Demosthenes scholia shows that his influential commentary on Demosthenes can be partially reconstructed. It explores the educational practices of the rhetorical schools, and shows that the skills which they taught still had a direct application in the subsequent careers of the rhetoricians' pupils.

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About the Author

Malcolm Heath is Professor of Greek in the Department of Classics, University of Leeds.

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Publisher
OUP Oxford
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0199259208
ISBN 13 
9780199259205
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
394