Hermogenes On Issues: Strategies Of Argument In Later Greek Rhetoric Peri Tōn Staseōn. English. 1995 On Issues

This is the only modern English translation with commentary in print of this important treatise by Hermogenes of Tarsus (AD C. 160-225). The book makes sophisticated theories of argument developed by Greek teachers of rhetoric in the second century AD accessible both to specialist and non-specialist readers. A new English translation, with commentary, of the treatise On Issues by Hermogenes of Tarsus (AD C.160-225). The book is intended to make sophisticated theories of argument developed by Greek teachers of rhetoric in the second century AD accessible both to specialist and non-specialist readers. Of interest to scholars of all types of Greek literature. Malcolm Heath. Contains Illustrations Of Other Rhetoricians (libanius, Lucian, Sopater, Syrianus And Aelius Aristides) And A Who's Who Of Hellenistic And Later Rhetoricians. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 231-236) And Indexes.