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Hermogenes and the Renaissance: Seven Ideas of Style
By (Author) Annabel M. Patterson
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th May 2015
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
888.01
Paperback
258
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
340g
Annabel M. Patterson offers here a reassessment of the place of Hermogenes, a Greek rhetorician of the second century A.D., in literary history. She shows that the literary men of the European Renaissance-scholars, critics, and poets-found Hermogenes' Concerning Ideas both important and extremely useful, and she finds that they vigorously applied h