The orator in action and theory in Greece and Rome
By: edited by Cecil W. Wooten.
Contributors: Wooten, Cecil W., 1945-; Kennedy, George Alexander, 1928-
Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava.; 224
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Oratory, Ancient.; Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek -- History and criticism.; Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chiefly papers presented at a conference held Oct. 1998, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in honor of George Kennedy.
Table of contents: title: How good should an orator be? / Øivind Andersen; title: What the laws have prejudged : [Paragrafē] and early issue theory / Edwin Carawan; title: The superfluous bag : rhetoric and display in the Histories of Herodotus / Sheile Murnaghan; title: Rhetoric, art, and myth : Isocrates and Busiris / Terry L. Papillon; title: Julius Caesar, the orator of paradox / A.D. Leeman; title: Shifting charge and shifty argument in Cicero's Speech for Sestius / Christopher Craig; title: Cicero's Pro Milone / James M. May; title: Returning to Tacitus' Dialogus / Michael Winterbottom; title: Firgured speeches : "Dionysius," Art of rhetoric, VIII-IX / D.A. Russell.