History of Rhetoric, Volume I : The Art of Persuasion in Greece

A concern for the art of persuasion, as rhetoric was anciently defined, was a principal feature of Greek intellectual life. In this study of the complex of subjects labeled "rhetoric," the author explores rhetorical theory and practice from the fifth to the first centuries B.C. Beginning with the creative rhetoric of the pre-Socratic era, the study progresses through the time of Aristotle and the Attic orators and concludes with the ossification of rhetoric into a pedantic discipline during the Hellenistic period. Originally published in 1963. The **Princeton Legacy Library** uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. A concern for the art of persuasion, as rhetoric was anciently defined, was a principal feature of Greek intellectual life. In this study of the complex of subjects labeled "rhetoric," the author explores rhetorical theory and practice from the fifth to the first centuries B.C. Beginning with the creative rhetoric of the pre-Socratic era, the study progresses through the time of Aristotle and the Attic orators and concludes with the ossification of rhetoric into a pedantic discipline during the Hellenistic period. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905 Foreword Contents Abbreviations CHAPTER ONE. Introduction: The Nature of Rhetoric CHAPTER TWO. Techniques of Persuasion in Greek Literature before 400 B.C CHAPTER THREE. Early Rhetorical Theory, Corax to Aristotle Corax and Tisias Gorgias Thrasymachus Other rhetoricians Isocrates Plato's Phaedrus Theodectes The Development of Aristotle's Rhetoric Aristotle on Invention The Third Book of Aristotle's Rhetoric The Rhetorica ad Alexandrum CHAPTER FOUR. The Attic Orators Judicial Oratory Antiphon Lysias Isaeus Andocides Trial of Socrates Epideictic Oratory Funeral Orations Festival Orations Sophistic Oratory Isocrates Deliberative Oratory Demosthenes Aeschines The Lesser Orators of the Later Fourth Century Apollodorus Lycurgus Hyperides Dinarchus CHAPTER FIVE. Hellenistic Rhetoric to the Arrival in Rome of Dionysius of Halicarnassus Theophrastus Demetrius The Stoics Other Philosophical Schools Asianism Hermagoras The Quarrel between Rhetoric and Philosophy Atticism APPENDIX. The Introduction to On the ancient orators by Dionysius of Halicarnassus INDEX