This complete guide to ancient Greek rhetoric is exceptional both in its chronological range and the breadth of topics it covers. 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

Table of Contents:
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 10 Hellenistic Rhetoric in Theory and Practice 124 John Vanderspoel 11 The New World Order: Greek Rhetoric in Rome 139 Joy Connolly 12 Rhetoric in Byzantium 166 Elizabeth Jeffreys Part III Rhetoric and Speeches 185 13 The Parts of the Speech 187 Michael de Brauw 14 Forensic Oratory 203 Craig Cooper 15 Symbouleutic Oratory 220 Stephen Usher 16 Epideictic Oratory 236 Christopher Carey Part IV Rhetoric: Political, Social and Intellectual Contexts 253 17 Rhetoric and Politics in Classical Greece: Rise of the Rhe¯tores 255 Ian Worthington 18 Rhetoric and Persuasion in the Hellenistic World: Speaking up for the Polis 272 Andrew Erskine 19 Rhetoric and the Law 286 James P. Sickinger 20 Rhetoric and Education 303 Teresa Morgan 21 Rhetoric and Religion 320 Ken Dowden 22 Rhetoric and Language 336 A. Lopez Eire 23 Rhetoric and Logic 350 James Allen 24 Rhetoric and Knowledge 365 Tobias Reinhardt 25 Rhetoric and Ethics from the Sophists to Aristotle 378 Jane M. Day 26 Rhetoric, Manliness and Contest 393 Joseph Roisman 27 Rhetoric and Emotion 411 David Konstan Part V Rhetoric and Literature 427 28 Right Rhetoric in Homer 429 Hanna M. Roisman 29 Hesiod’s Rhetorical Art 447 Jenny Strauss Clay 30 Acts of Persuasion in Hellenistic Epic: Honey-Sweet Words in Apollonius 458 Anatole Mori 31 Rhetoric and Tragedy: Weapons of Mass Persuasion 473 Marianne McDonald 32 Attic Comedy and the Development of Theoretical Rhetoric 490 Thomas K. Hubbard 33 Rhetoric and Lyric Poetry 509 William H. Race 34 Rhetoric and the Novel: Sex, Lies and Sophistic 526 Ruth Webb 35 Rhetoric and Historiography 542 Matthew Fox and Niall Livingstone Bibliography 562 Index 594