Menander: A Rhetor in Context
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Ancient schools of rhetoric taught students how to devise arguments in legal and political disputes, and how to express them. Many scholars believe that these techniques increasingly lost their practical relevance under the Roman Empire. This detailed reassessment of the history and social significance of rhetoric in late antiquity shows how it was taught, and why the skills it promoted were still believed to have a direct application in the subsequent...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0199259208
ISBN13:9780199259205
Release Date:September 2004
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:394 Pages
Weight:1.31 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.7" x 8.5"
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