Roman eloquence : rhetoric in society and literature / edited by William J. Dominik.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Dominik, William J.
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
Subjects:
Latin literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Rome > Social life and customs.
Literature and society > Rome.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Physical Description:xii, 268 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : the Roman Suada / Gualtiero Calboli and William J. Dominik
  • Ciceronian rhetoric : theory and practice / John T. Kirby
  • Caecilius, the 'canons' of writers, and the origins of Atticism / Neil O'Sullivan
  • The style is the man : Seneca, Tacitus and Quintilian's canon / William J. Dominik
  • Field and forum : culture and agriculture in Roman rhetoric / Catherine Connors
  • Gender and rhetoric : producing manhood in the schools / Amy Richlin
  • The contexts and occasions of Roman public rhetoric / Elaine Fantham
  • Towards a rhetoric of (Roman?) epic / Joseph Farrell
  • Declamation and contestation in satire / Susanna Morton Braund
  • Melpomene's declamation (rhetoric and tragedy) / Sander M. Goldberg
  • Inter tribunal et scaenam : comedy and rhetoric in Rome / Joseph J. Hughes
  • Eros and eloquence : modes of amatory persuasion in Ovid's Ars Amatoria / Peter Toohey
  • Persuasive history : Roman rhetoric and historiography / Robert W. Cape, Jr
  • Substructural elements of architectonic rhetoric and philosophical thought in Fronto's Epistles / Michele Valerie Ronnick.