The chreia and ancient rhetoric
Subtitle: commentaries on Aphthonius's Progymnasmata
By: translated with an introduction and notes by Ronald F. Hock
Series: Writings from the Greco-Roman world -- v. 31; Writings from the Greco-Roman world -- v. 31.
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Atlanta
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9781589836440; 9781589836457; 9781589837287
Subjects: Retorika; Chreiai; Scholia; Szónoki gyakorlatok; Progymnasmata (Aphthonius); Ancient Rhetoric; Rétorika
Notes: "This is the third and final volume of the Chreia in Ancient Education and Literature Project sponsored by the Institute of Antiquity and Christianity at the Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. The first volume, The Chreia in Ancient Rhetoric: The Progymnasmata, appeared in 1986 and introduced and translated the chreia chapters from all the extant Progymnasmata as well as some related texts. The second volume, The Chreia and Ancient Rhetoric: Classroom Exercises, was published in 2002; it introduced and translated the various classroom exercises that used the chreia during the primary and secondary stages of the curriculum but especially during the third, or rhetorical, stage where elaborating a chreia became the principal exercise for students to undertake"--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-340) and index.

Text in English and Greek.
Table of contents: title: John of Sardis, Commentary on Aphthonius's Progymnasmata --; title: The P-Scholia, Commentary on Aphthonius's Progymnasmata --; title: John Doxapatres, Commentary on Aphthonius's Progymnasmata --; title: Rhetorica Marciana, Commentary on Aphthonius's Progymnasmata --; title: Maximus Planudes, Commentary on Aphthonius's Progymnasmata --; title: Matthew Camariotes, Epitome of Aphthonius's Progymnasmata.