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The chreia and ancient rhetoric : commentaries on Aphthonius's Progymnasmata / translated with an introduction and notes by Ronald F. Hock.

Other author/creatorHock, Ronald F., 1944-
Other author/creatorAmerican Council of Learned Societies.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoAtlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, [2012]
Descriptionxii, 345 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from ACLS Humanities E-Book
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Subject(s)
Series Writings from the Greco-Roman world ; number 31
General note"This is the third and final volume of the Chreia in Ancient Education and Literature Project sponsored by the Institute of Antiquity and Christianity at the Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. The first volume, The Chreia in Ancient Rhetoric: The Progymnasmata, appeared in 1986 and introduced and translated the chreia chapters from all the extant Progymnasmata as well as some related texts. The second volume, The Chreia and Ancient Rhetoric: Classroom Exercises, was published in 2002; it introduced and translated the various classroom exercises that used the chreia during the primary and secondary stages of the curriculum but especially during the third, or rhetorical, stage where elaborating a chreia became the principal exercise for students to undertake"--Introduction.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 333-340) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
LanguageText in English and Greek.
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2012041822
ISBN9781589836440 (paper binding)

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