Twenty-eight illustrations are included."--Jacket.

An exciting and accessible introduction to rhetoric and oratory in ancient Greece. All Greek and Latin is translated.

Central to rhetorical theory, the enthymeme is most often defined as a truncated syllogism. Suppressing a premise that the audience already knows, this rhetoric

The Attic orators, whose works are an invaluable source on the social and political history of Classical Athens, often filled their speeches with charges of con

The interaction between orator and audience, the passions and distrust held by many concerning the predominance of one individual, but also the individual’s s