Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 374 pages) |
Series |
Ebook Central Academic Complete Collection |
Contents |
1. Introduction -- pt. I. Continuity and innovation -- 2. The second century : transformation -- 3. The third century : fruition -- pt. II. Menander of Laodicea -- 4. Menander : testimonia and fragments -- 5. The Demosthenes Scholia -- 6. Menander's commentary -- pt. III. Classroom and career -- 7. Teaching -- 8. Technography -- 9. The relevance of rhetoric |
Summary |
"In this book Malcolm Heath undertakes a fundamental reassessment of Menander of Laodicea ('Menander Rhetor'), and of the nature and functions of rhetoric in later antiquity (second to fifth centuries A.D.). He examines in detail Menander's fragments, collected here for the first time, and shows that he was primarily an expert on judicial and deliberative oratory; a source-critical analysis of the Demosthenes scholia demonstrates that his influential commentary on Demosthenes can be partially reconstructed. Heath explores the educational practices of the rhetorical schools, and shows that, contrary to scholars who argue that rhetorical techniques increasingly lost their practical relevance under the Roman Empire, the skills which the rhetoricians taught still had a direct application in their pupils' subsequent careers."--Jacket |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-349) and indexes |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Subject |
Menander, of Laodicea, active 3rd century.
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SUBJECT |
Menander, of Laodicea, active 3rd century fast |
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Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek -- Study and teaching -- Turkey -- Laodicea ad Lycum -- History -- To 1500
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Rhetoric, Ancient.
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Oratory, Ancient.
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Rhetorical criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
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Rhetorical criticism
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Intellectual life
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Oratory, Ancient
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Rhetoric, Ancient
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Retorica.
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SUBJECT |
Laodicea ad Lycum (Extinct city) -- Intellectual life
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Turkey -- Laodicea ad Lycum (Extinct city)
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Genre/Form |
History
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2004303048 |
ISBN |
9780191531781 |
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0191531782 |
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9781281906625 |
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128190662X |
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9780191717932 |
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0191717932 |
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9786611906627 |
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6611906622 |
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