A New History of Classical Rhetoric
George A. Kennedy

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

	Preface
Ch. 1	Introduction: The Nature of Rhetoric	3
Ch. 2	Persuasion in Greek Literature before 400 B.C.	11
Ch. 3	Greek Rhetorical Theory from Corax to Aristotle	30
	Plato's Gorgias	35
	Plato's Phaedrus	39
	Isocrates	43
	The Rhetoric for Alexander	49
	Aristotle	51
Ch. 4	The Attic Orators	64
	Lysias	65
	Demosthenes	68
Ch. 5	Hellenistic Rhetoric	81
	Theophrastus	84
	Later Peripatetics	87
	Demetrius, On Style	88
	The Stoics	90
	The Academics	93
	The Epicureans	93
	Asianism	95
	Hermagoras and Stasis Theory	97
Ch. 6	Early Roman Rhetoric	102
	Cato the Elder	106
	Roman Orators of the Late Second and Early First Centuries B.C.	111
	Latin Rhetoricians	115
	Cicero's On Invention	117
	The Rhetoric for Herennius	121
Ch. 7	Cicero	128
	Cicero's Orations in the Years from 81 to 56 B.C.	129
	On the Orator	140
	For Milo and Cicero's Later Speeches	147
	Brutus and Orator	151
Ch. 8	Rhetoric in Augustan Rome	159
	Greek Rhetoricians of the Second Half of the First Century B.C.	160
	Dionysius of Halicarnassus	161
	Declamation and Seneca the Elder	166
Ch. 9	Latin Rhetoric in the Silver Age	173
	Quintilian	177
	Discussions of the "Decline of Eloquence"	186
	Pliny the Younger	192
	Fronto and Gellius	196
	Apuleius	199
Ch. 10	Greek Rhetoric under the Roman Empire	201
	Progymnasmata	202
	Hermogenes and the Formation of the Hermogenic Corpus	208
	Prolegomena	217
	Other Greek Rhetorical Treatises	224
Ch. 11	The Second Sophistic	230
	Dio Chrysostom	233
	Polemon and Herodes Atticus	237
	Aclius Aristides	239
	Sophistry from the Late Second to the Early Fourth Century	241
	The Sophistic Renaissance of the Fourth Century	242
	Prohaeresius	243
	Himerius	245
	Libanius	248
	Themistius	251
	Synesius	252
	The "University" of Constantinople	254
	The School of Gaza	255
	The Decline of the Schools	256
Ch. 12	Christianity and Classical Rhetoric	257
	Christian Panegyric	260
	Gregory of Nazianzus	261
	Other Major Figures of the Fourth Century	263
	The Latin Fathers	264
	Saint Augustine	265
Ch. 13	The Survival of Classical Rhetoric from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages	271
	The Decline in the East	271
	The Decline in the West	273
	Latin Grammarians of Later Antiquity	274
	The "Minor" Latin Rhetoricians	275
	Martianus Capella	279
	Cassiodorus	279
	Isidore of Seville	280
	Other Late Latin Works on Rhetoric	280
	Bede and Alcuin	281
	Boethius	282
	Bibliography	285
	Index	297

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