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Author Heath, Malcolm.

Title Menander : a rhetor in context / Malcolm Heath
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 374 pages)
Contents Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I: Continuity and Innovation; Part II: Menander of Laodicea; Part III: Classroom and Career; Bibliography; Index of Passages Cited; General Index
Summary This detailed reassessment of the history and social significance of rhetoric in late antiquity shows how it was taught and why the skills it promoted were still believed to have a direct application in the subsequent careers of the rhetoricians' pupils
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-349) and indexes
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Subject Menander, of Laodicea, active 3rd century.
Menander, of Laodicea, active 3rd century.
Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek -- Study and teaching -- Turkey -- Laodicea ad Lycum -- History -- To 1500
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Oratory, Ancient.
Rhetorical criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
Rhetorical criticism.
Intellectual life.
Oratory, Ancient.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Retorica.
Laodicea ad Lycum (Extinct city) -- Intellectual life
Turkey -- Laodicea ad Lycum (Extinct city)
Genre/Form History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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