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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: William Dominik (University of Otago, New Zealand) , Jon Hall (University of Otago, New Zealand)Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell Dimensions: Width: 18.20cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 1.098kg ISBN: 9781405120913ISBN 10: 1405120916 Pages: 544 Publication Date: 22 December 2006 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Preface xii Texts and Abbreviations xiv Part I Approaching Rhetoric 1 1 Confronting Roman Rhetoric 3 William Dominik and Jon Hall 2 Modern Critical Approaches to Roman Rhetoric 9 John Dugan 3 Greek Rhetoric Meets Rome: Expansion, Resistance, and Acculturation 23 Sarah Culpepper Stroup 4 Native Roman Rhetoric: Plautus and Terence 38 John Barsby 5 Roman Oratory Before Cicero: The Elder Cato and Gaius Gracchus 54 Enrica Sciarrino Part II Rhetoric and Its Social Context 67 6 Rhetorical Education and Social Reproduction in the Republic and Early Empire 69 Anthony Corbeill 7 Virile Tongues: Rhetoric and Masculinity 83 Joy Connolly 8 Oratory, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Republic 98 Michael C. Alexander 9 Oratory and Politics in the Empire 109 Steven H. Rutledge 10 Roman Senatorial Oratory 122 John T. Ramsey 11 Panegyric 136 Roger Rees 12 Roman Oratorical Invective 149 Valentina Arena Part III Systematizing Rhetoric 161 13 Roman Rhetorical Handbooks 163 Robert N. Gaines 14 Elocutio: Latin Prose Style 181 Roderich Kirchner 15 Memory and the Roman Orator 195 Jocelyn Penny Small 16 Wit and Humor in Roman Rhetoric 207 Edwin Rabbie 17 Oratorical Delivery and the Emotions: Theory and Practice 218 Jon Hall Part IV Rhetoricians and Orators 235 18 Lost Orators of Rome 237 Catherine Steel 19 Cicero as Rhetorician 250 James M. May 20 Cicero as Orator 264 Christopher P. Craig 21 Grammarians and Rhetoricians 285 Charles McNelis 22 Roman Declamation: The Elder Seneca and Quintilian 297 W. Martin Bloomer 23 Quintilian as Rhetorician and Teacher 307 Jorge Fernández López 24 Tacitus and Pliny on Oratory 323 William Dominik 25 Rhetoric and the Second Sophistic 339 Graham Anderson 26 Roman Rhetoric and Its Afterlife 354 John O. Ward Part V Rhetoric and Roman Literature 367 27 Rhetoric and Literature at Rome 369 Matthew Fox 28 Rhetoric and Epic: Vergil’s Aeneid and Lucan’s Bellum Civile 382 Emanuele Narducci 29 Rhetoric and Satire: Horace, Persius, and Juvenal 396 Dan Hooley 30 Rhetoric and Ovid 413 Ulrike Auhagen 31 Rhetoric and the Younger Seneca 425 Marcus Wilson 32 Rhetoric and Historiography 439 Cynthia Damon Bibliography 451 Glossary of Technical Terms 487 Index Locorum 495 General Index 502ReviewsDominik 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) “This Blackwell Companion successfully communicates the efflorescence of Roman rhetorical practices and the centrality of rhetoric in Roman thought. (Classical World, June 2009) The historical and generic range of these 32 scholarly essays strikingly reflects how rhetoric pervaded Roman literature… .Students at all levels will benefit from reading these essays. (Classical Review. 2008) “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) 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) ?This Blackwell Companion successfully communicates the efflorescence of Roman rhetorical practices and the centrality of rhetoric in Roman thought.? (Classical World, June 2009) The historical and generic range of these 32 scholarly essays strikingly reflects how rhetoric pervaded Roman literature? .Students at all levels will benefit from reading these essays. (Classical Review. 2008) ?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) Author InformationWilliam Dominik is Professor of Classics at the University of Otago. He is a contributor to A Companion to Ancient Epic (2005) and A Companion to the Classical Tradition (2006). He has also published numerous books, chapters, and articles on Roman literature and other topics. Jon Hall is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Otago. He is the author of numerous articles and chapters on Cicero’s oratory and rhetorical treatises. He has also completed a book on Cicero’s correspondence. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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