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Hermogenes and the Renaissance: Seven Ideas of Style
By (Author) Annabel M. Patterson
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
888.01
Hardback
258
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
539g
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