Homeric speech and the origins of rhetoric / Rachel Ahern Knudsen.

Author/creator Knudsen, Rachel Ahern author.
Format Book
PublicationBaltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Copyright Date©2014
Descriptionx, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Rhetoric in Homer -- Reconsidering the origins of rhetoric -- Investigating Homeric rhetoric -- Patterns of Aristotelian rhetoric in the Iliad -- The genealogy of rhetoric from Homer to Aristotle -- Explaining the correspondence between Homeric speech and Aristotelian theory -- Rhetoric in archaic poetry -- From poetry to theory -- Appendix: analysis of remaining Iliadic rhetorical speeches.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 213-223) and index.
LCCN 2013020204
ISBN9781421412269 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN1421412268 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PA4037 .K575 2014 ✔ Available Place Hold