Product Description: This book presents a comprehensive account of features of Latin that emerge from dialogue: commands and requests, command softeners and strengtheners, statement hedges, interruptions, attention-getters, greetings and closings. In analyzing these features, Peter Barrios-Lech employs a quantitative method and draws on all the data from Roman comedy and the fragments of Latin drama...read more

Product Description: The Apostle Paul lived and breathed in a Hellenistic culture that placed high value on the art of rhetoric, and recent advances in rhetorical criticism of the New Testament have resulted in a new emphasis on the rhetorical aspect of his letters...read more

Product Description: Ancient Greeks remembered their past before the rise of historiography and after it poetry and oratory continued to serve commemorative functions. This book explores the field of literary memory in the fifth century BCE, juxtaposing the works of Herodotus and Thucydides with samples from epinician poetry, elegy, tragedy and oratory...read more

Product Description: Platons Spannungsverhältnis zu Dichtung und Rhetorik bewegt sich zwischen Kritik und eigenem Rückgriff auf diese Bereiche. Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung steht die Frage nach Platons impliziter Rhetorik und Poetik im Dialog Gorgias...read more

Product Description: Alleged incompatibility of Epicurus' philosophy with rhetoric has led modern scholars to isolate rhetorical procedures in Lucretius' "De Rerum Natura" and regard them as non-Epicurean, accessory features. This study of Lucretius' rhetorical procedures is based on a wider understanding of the term rhetoric, not limited to the genre of oratory...read more

Product Description: Focussing on the Latin declamations, this book shines a new light on the literary nature of these often underestimated texts, their fictional nature and relation to poetry and the novel.