Available Formats
History of Rhetoric, Volume I: The Art of Persuasion in Greece
By (Author) George A. Kennedy
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
15th February 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
401.4
Paperback
364
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
510g
A concern for the art of persuasion, as rhetoric was anciently defined, was a principal feature of Greek intellectual life. In this study of the complex of subjects labeled "rhetoric," the author explores rhetorical theory and practice from the fifth to the first centuries B.C. Beginning with the creative rhetoric of the pre-Socratic era, the study