An Introduction to Classical Rhetoric: Essential Readings

Acknowledgments xii

Introduction 1

Part I: Classical Greek Rhetoric 7

1 Introduction to Greek Rhetoric 9

2 Female Voices 37

3 The Sophists 51

4 Plato on Philosophy and Rhetoric 108

5 Aristotle and the Systemization of Rhetoric 222

Part II: Classical Roman Rhetoric 271

6 Introduction to Roman Rhetoric and Oratory 273

7 Cicero and the Latinization of Greek Rhetoric 316

8 Horace and the Revival of Poetry 376

9 Quintilian the Educator 392

10 The End of the Classical Period: Libanius and Augustine 416

References 527

Sources 536

Index 539

Plates appear between pp. 276 and 277