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A Companion to Roman Rhetoric
"This Blackwell Companion successfully communicates the efflorescence of Roman rhetorical practices and the centrality of rhetoric in Roman thought." (Classical World, June 2009)
"Students at all levels will benefit from reading these essays, both for their intrinsic scholarship and for the guidance they give, through copious bibliographical reference, towards further research…an important contribution to Blackwell’s catalogue of classical titles." (The Classical Review, Vol 58 No. 1 2008)
"Dominik and Hall's [book] will be welcomed by those seeking capable introductions to the areas it treats. Through an array of open-minded contributions [it] usefully introduces the main scholarly issues in Roman rhetoric and oratory, outlining how far the field has come and the opportunities and complications that lie ahead."(Bryn Mawr Classical Review)
"A significant major contribution that adds further prestige to a very major series." (Reference Reviews)
"A short review cannot begin to do justice to the immense range of material covered here … This excellent Companion will tell most readers all they need to know about Roman rhetoric." (Journal of Classics Teaching)
"This welcome addition … fills a void long empty in classical scholarship … . Every library, if not every Classics department, should own a copy." (New England Classical Journal)
William Dominik (Edited by), W Dominik (Author), Jon Hall (Edited by)
9781444334159, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 18 December 2009
544 pages
24.6 x 17.2 x 3 cm, 0.943 kg
"Dominik and Hall have produced a solid, well-structured and accessible piece of work, which not only provides an excellent starting point to newcomers, but also contains a number of original contributions that will be of interest to more advanced scholars." (Scholia Reviews, June 2010)
A Companion to Roman Rhetoric introduces the reader to the wide-ranging importance of rhetoric in Roman culture.
Contents Notes on Contributors viii Preface xii Texts and Abbreviations xiv Part I Approaching Rhetoric 1 1 Confronting Roman Rhetoric 3 2 Modern Critical Approaches to Roman Rhetoric 9 3 Greek Rhetoric Meets Rome: Expansion, Resistance, and Acculturation 23 4 Native Roman Rhetoric: Plautus and Terence 38 5 Roman Oratory Before Cicero: The Elder Cato and Gaius Gracchus 54 Part II Rhetoric and Its Social Context 67 6 Rhetorical Education and Social Reproduction in the Republic and Early Empire 69 7 Virile Tongues: Rhetoric and Masculinity 83 8 Oratory, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Republic 98 9 Oratory and Politics in the Empire 109 10 Roman Senatorial Oratory 122 11 Panegyric 136 12 Roman Oratorical Invective 149 Part III Systematizing Rhetoric 161 13 Roman Rhetorical Handbooks 163 14 Elocutio: Latin Prose Style 181 15 Memory and the Roman Orator 195 16 Wit and Humor in Roman Rhetoric 207 17 Oratorical Delivery and the Emotions: Theory and Practice 218 Part IV Rhetoricians and Orators 235 18 Lost Orators of Rome 237 19 Cicero as Rhetorician 250 20 Cicero as Orator 264 21 Grammarians and Rhetoricians 285 22 Roman Declamation: The Elder Seneca and Quintilian 297 23 Quintilian as Rhetorician and Teacher 307 24 Tacitus and Pliny on Oratory 323 25 Rhetoric and the Second Sophistic 339 26 Roman Rhetoric and Its Afterlife 354 Part V Rhetoric and Roman Literature 367 27 Rhetoric and Literature at Rome 369 28 Rhetoric and Epic: Vergil’s Aeneid and Lucan’s Bellum Civile 382 29 Rhetoric and Satire: Horace, Persius, and Juvenal 396 30 Rhetoric and Ovid 413 31 Rhetoric and the Younger Seneca 425 32 Rhetoric and Historiography 439 Bibliography 451 Glossary of Technical Terms 487 Index Locorum 495 General Index 502
William Dominik and Jon Hall
John Dugan
Sarah Culpepper Stroup
John Barsby
Enrica Sciarrino
Anthony Corbeill
Joy Connolly
Michael C. Alexander
Steven H. Rutledge
John T. Ramsey
Roger Rees
Valentina Arena
Robert N. Gaines
Roderich Kirchner
Jocelyn Penny Small
Edwin Rabbie
Jon Hall
Catherine Steel
James M. May
Christopher P. Craig
Charles McNelis
W. Martin Bloomer
Jorge Ferna´ndez Lo´pez
William Dominik
Graham Anderson
John O. Ward
Matthew Fox
Emanuele Narducci
Dan Hooley
Ulrike Auhagen
Marcus Wilson
Cynthia Damon
Subject Areas: History [HB]
