Menander Rhetor. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ars Rhetorica L539
Rhetor, Menander/ Dionysius of Halicarnassus/ Race, William H. (Editor)
ISBN 10: 0674997220 ISBN 13: 9780674997226
Published by Loeb Classical Library, 2019
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How to write a speech in ancient Greek.
This volume contains three rhetorical treatises dating probably from the reign of Diocletian (AD 285–312) that provide instruction on how to compose epideictic (display) speeches for a wide variety of occasions both public and private. Two are attributed to one Menander Rhetor of Laodicea (in southwestern Turkey); the third, known as the Ars Rhetorica, incorrectly to the earlier historian and literary critic Dionysius of Halicarnassus. These treatises derive from the schools of rhetoric that flourished in the Roman Empire from the second through fourth centuries AD in the Greek East. Although important examples of some genres of occasional prose were composed in the fifth and fourth centuries BC by Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato, and especially Isocrates, it was with the flowering of rhetorical prose during the so-called Second Sophistic in the second half of the second century AD that more forms were developed as standard repertoire and became exemplary.
Distinctly Hellenic and richly informed by the prose and poetry of a venerable past, these treatises are addressed to the budding orator contemplating a civic career, one who would speak for his city’s interests to the Roman authorities and be an eloquent defender of its Greek culture and heritage. They provide a window into the literary culture, educational values and practices, and social concerns of these Greeks under Roman rule, in both public and private life, and considerably influenced later literature both pagan and Christian.
This edition offers a fresh translation, ample annotation, and texts based on the best critical editions.
About the Author: William H. Race is Paddison Professor of Classics, Emeritus, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Title: Menander Rhetor. Dionysius of Halicarnassus,...
Publisher: Loeb Classical Library
Publication Date: 2019
Binding: Hardcover
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