The Origins of Rhetoric in Ancient Greece (Ancient Society and History)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: April 1, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780801851186
Subjects: Ancient Western philosophy to c 500; Sociology; Ancient Greek; Rhetoric (General); Literature - Classics / Criticism; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Greece; Ancient - General; History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical; Rhetoric; Literary Criticism & Collections / Ancient & Classical
First sentence: It has been said that rhetoric is the will attempting to do the work of the imagination; and the earliest rhetoricians, Greeks of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C., might well have agreed.