Influences on Peripatetic rhetoric essays in honor of William W. Fortenbaugh

Mirhady, David C., 1960- (Added Author).

Summary: Focuses particularly on the generation before Aristotle wrote his Rhetoric, the central text of ancient Greek rhetorical theory. This work concentrates on different aspects of the Peripatetics' writings, both of Aristotle and Theophrastus, their thoughts on character, emotion, logos, and metaphor, the influences of dramatic writings, and others.

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ISBN: 9004156682
ISBN: 9789004156685
ISBN: 9047419529 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9789047419525 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 282 p.) : port.
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Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

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General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:	Theory and practice in fourth-century eloquence : the case of the speaker as a teacher of the demos / Dirk M. Schenkeveld -- Ethos in persuasion and in musical education in Plato and Aristotle / Eckart Schütrumpt -- Aristotle's Enthymeme, Thymos, and Plato / David C. Mirhady -- Reason in speech? : logos and means of persuasion in Aristotle's Rhetoric / Johannes M. van Ophuijsen -- Techniques of proof in 4th century rhetoric : Ar. Rhet. 2.23-24 and pre-Aristotelian rhetorical theory / Tobias Reinhardt -- Argumentative devices in the Rhetorica ad Alexandrum / Lucia Calboli Montefusco -- The metaphor after Aristotle / Gualtiero Calboli -- Aristotle : the written and the performative styles / Doreen C. Innes -- Teodette di Faselide, retore / Elisabetta Matelli -- Teodette di Faselide poeta tragico : riflessioni attorno al fr. 6 Snell / Andrea Martano -- Der euripideische Philoktet und die Rhetorik des 4. Jahrhunderts / Carl Werner Müller -- Theophrastus and Callisthenes / Stephen A. White -- Topics of vituperation : some commonplaces of 4th-century oratory / Thomas M. Conley -- The emotion in Aristotle Rhetoric 2.7 : gratitude, not kindness / David Konstan.
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Language Note:	Eleven contributions in English, 2 in Italian, and 1 in German.
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