Menander: A Rhetor in Context (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199259205)

Ancient schools of rhetoric taught students how to devise arguments in legal and political disputes, and how to express them. Many scholars believe that these techniques increasingly lost their practical relevance under the Roman Empire. This detailed reassessment of the history and social significance of rhetoric in late antiquity shows how it was taught, and why the skills it promoted were still believed to have a direct application in the subsequent careers of the rhetoricians' pupils.

Author: Malcolm Heath
ISBN-10: 0199259208
ISBN-13: 9780199259205
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 09/30/2004
Pages: 394
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.68w x 1.03d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2005 pg. 1398