A Companion to Greek Rhetoric [Paperback]

• Traces the rise of rhetoric and its uses from Homer to Byzantium
• Covers wider-ranging topics such as rhetoric's relationship to knowledge, ethics, religion, law, and emotion
• Incorporates new material giving us fresh insights into how the Greeks saw and used rhetoric
• Discusses the idea of rhetoric and examines the status of rhetoric studies, present and future
• All quotations from ancient sources are translated into English

Notes on Contributors viii

Preface: For Readers – and Reviewers x

Notes xii

Abbreviations xiii

Speeches of the Attic Orators xiv

Part I Setting the Scene 1

1 Rhetorical Questions 3
Edward Schiappa and Jim Hamm

2 Modern Interpretations of Classical Greek Rhetoric 16
Takis Poulakos

Part II Rhetoric: A Brief History 25

3 Background and Origins: Oratory and Rhetoric before the Sophists 27
Michael Gagarin

4 Gorgias the Sophist and Early Rhetoric 37
Jeroen A.E. Bons

5 Alcidamas 47
Michael Edwards

6 Isocrates 58
Terry L. Papillon

7 Plato’s Rhetoric 75
Harvey Yunis

8 The Rhetoric to Alexander 90
P. Chiron

9 Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric 107
W.W. Fortenbaugh