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Worthington / Companion to Greek Rhetoric 1405125519_1_pretoc Final Proof page iii 11.8.2006 7:05pm A COMPANION TO GREEK RHETORIC Edited by Ian Worthington Worthington / Companion to Greek Rhetoric 1405125519_1_pretoc Final Proof page i 11.8.2006 7:05pm A COMPANION TO GREEK RHETORIC Worthington / Companion to Greek Rhetoric 1405125519_1_pretoc Final Proof page ii 11.8.2006 7:05pm BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD This series provides sophisticated and authoritative overviews of periods of ancient history, genres of classical literature, and the most important themes in ancient culture. Each volume comprises between twenty-five and forty concise essays written by individual scholars within their area of specialization. The essays are written in a clear, provocative, and lively manner, designed for an international audience of scholars, students, and general readers. 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First published 2007 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd 1 2007 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A companion to Greek rhetoric / edited by Ian Worthington. p. cm. — (Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-2551-2 (hardback : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 1-4051-2551-9 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Rhetoric, Ancient—Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Classical literature—History and criticism—Theory, etc.—Handbooks, manuals, etc. 3. Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek—History and criticism—Theory, etc.— Handbooks, manuals, etc. 4. Oratory, Ancient—Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Worthington, Ian. II. Series. PA3265.C66 2007 808’.0481—dc22 2006006922 A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library. Set in 10/12pt Galliard by SPi Publisher Services, Pondicherry, India. 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For further information on Blackwell Publishing, visit our website: www.blackwellpublishing.com Worthington / Companion to Greek Rhetoric 1405125519_2_toc Final Proof page v 9.8.2006 7:37pm Contents Notes on Contributors viii Preface: For Readers – and Reviewers x Notes xii Abbreviations xiii Speeches of the Attic Orators xiv Part I Setting the Scene 1 1 Rhetorical Questions 3 Edward Schiappa and Jim Hamm 2 Modern Interpretations of Classical Greek Rhetoric 16 Takis Poulakos Part II Rhetoric: A Brief History 25 3 Background and Origins: Oratory and Rhetoric before the Sophists 27 Michael Gagarin 4 Gorgias the Sophist and Early Rhetoric 37 Jeroen A.E. Bons 5 Alcidamas 47 Michael Edwards 6 Isocrates 58 Terry L. Papillon Worthington / Companion to Greek Rhetoric 1405125519_2_toc Final Proof page vi 9.8.2006 7:37pm vi Contents 7 Plato’s Rhetoric 75 Harvey Yunis 8 The Rhetoric to Alexander 90 P. Chiron 9 Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric 107 W.W. Fortenbaugh 10 Hellenistic Rhetoric in Theory and Practice 124 John Vanderspoel 11 The New World Order: Greek Rhetoric in Rome 139 Joy Connolly 12 Rhetoric in Byzantium 166 Elizabeth Jeffreys Part III Rhetoric and Speeches 185 13 The Parts of the Speech 187 Michael de Brauw 14 Forensic Oratory 203 Craig Cooper 15 Symbouleutic Oratory 220 Stephen Usher 16 Epideictic Oratory 236 Christopher Carey Part IV Rhetoric: Political, Social and Intellectual Contexts 253 17 Rhetoric and Politics in Classical Greece: Rise of the Rhe¯tores 255 Ian Worthington 18 Rhetoric and Persuasion in the Hellenistic World: Speaking up for the Polis 272 Andrew Erskine 19 Rhetoric and the Law 286 James P. Sickinger 20 Rhetoric and Education 303 Teresa Morgan 21 Rhetoric and Religion 320 Ken Dowden Worthington / Companion to Greek Rhetoric 1405125519_2_toc Final Proof page vii 9.8.2006 7:37pm Contents vii 22 Rhetoric and Language 336 A. Lo´pez Eire 23 Rhetoric and Logic 350 James Allen 24 Rhetoric and Knowledge 365 Tobias Reinhardt 25 Rhetoric and Ethics from the Sophists to Aristotle 378 Jane M. Day 26 Rhetoric, Manliness and Contest 393 Joseph Roisman 27 Rhetoric and Emotion 411 David Konstan Part V Rhetoric and Literature 427 28 Right Rhetoric in Homer 429 Hanna M. Roisman 29 Hesiod’s Rhetorical Art 447 Jenny Strauss Clay 30 Acts of Persuasion in Hellenistic Epic: Honey-Sweet Words in Apollonius 458 Anatole Mori 31 Rhetoric and Tragedy: Weapons of Mass Persuasion 473 Marianne McDonald 32 Attic Comedy and the Development of Theoretical Rhetoric 490 Thomas K. Hubbard 33 Rhetoric and Lyric Poetry 509 William H. Race 34 Rhetoric and the Novel: Sex, Lies and Sophistic 526 Ruth Webb 35 Rhetoric and Historiography 542 Matthew Fox and Niall Livingstone Bibliography 562 Index 594 Worthington / Companion to Greek Rhetoric 1405125519_3_posttoc Final Proof page viii 9.8.2006 8:06pm Notes on Contributors James Allen, Professor of Philosophy, Craig Cooper, Associate Professor of Department of Philosophy, University Classics, Department of Classics, Univer- of Pittsburgh, USA sity of Winnipeg, Canada Jeroen A.E. Bons, Fellow of University Jane M. Day, Fellow and Tutor in Phil- College, Utrecht, Professor of the His- osophy, Lady Margaret Hall, University tory of Rhetoric, University of Amster- Lecturer in Philosophy, University of dam, The Netherlands Oxford, England Michael de Brauw, Andrew W. Mellon Ken Dowden, Professor of Classics and Fellow in Classics, Department of Clas- Director of the Institute of Archaeology sics, Northwestern University, USA and Antiquity, University of Birming- ham, England Christopher Carey, Professor of Greek, Department of Greek and Latin, Univer- Michael Edwards, Professor of Classics sity College, London, England in the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London, Pierre Chiron, Professeur de langue et England litte´rature grecques a` l’UFR de Lettres et Sciences humaines de l’Universite´ Paris Antonio Lo´pez Eire, Chair of Greek XII-Val de Marne, Directeur de l’EA Philology, Department of Classical Phil- 3953 (Philosophie et Litte´rature: textes, ology and Indoeuropean Linguistics, traditions, ide´es), France University of Salamanca, Spain Jenny Strauss Clay, Professor of Clas- Andrew Erskine, Reader in the School sics, Department of Classics, University of History and Classics, University of of Virginia, USA Edinburgh, Scotland Joy Connolly, Assistant Professor of William W. Fortenbaugh, Professor of Classics, Department of Classics, New Classics Emeritus, Department of Clas- York University, USA sics, Rutgers University, USA Worthington / Companion to Greek Rhetoric 1405125519_3_posttoc
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    DS Mayfield Variants of Rhetorical Ventriloquism sermocinatio, ethopoeia, prosopopoeia (and Affine Terms) in the Rhetorica ad Herennium, Cicero, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Quintilian, Augustine – Including Tentative Remarks on the Oratorico- Dramatic Concepts of ethos and persona, as well as Their Potential with Respect to Authorial Selfcraft in Shakespeare and Cervantes Online Supplement to History and Drama, 978-3-11-060426-9 Edited by Joachim Küpper, Jan Mosch and Elena Penskaya IN MEMORIAM FRIEDRICH WILHELM SCHUSTER *16.04.1924 †24.06.2004 FRIEDLINDE KÄTHE LISETTE SCHUSTER *29.11.1924 †27.11.2016 IN GRATITUDE FOR THEIR COUNSEL AND ENDURING GUIDANCE BY WAY OF THE EXAMPLE THEIR LIVES SET . Note This is the extended rendering of an essay that has appeared in the volume History and Drama , edited by Joachim Küpper, Jan Mosch, and Elena Penskaya (Berlin: de Gruyter), which features condensed versions of chapters 1 and 5. IV Acknowledgements Acknowledgements The preliminary research conducing to the study at hand was performed while receiving funding from the European Research Council (ERC) as a member of the DramaNet project at Freie Universität Berlin, headed by Professor Joachim Küpper. In addition to affine material written in addition (specifically parts 1, 2, 6, and subchapter 4.1), it integrates the revised and augmented versions of two thematically interrelated papers given in October 2016. An initial version of chapter 3.3, the opening of part 4, and subchapter 4.2 was presented at the Humboldt Forum “‘World Literatures – Masterpieces: Shakespeare and Cervantes 2016’” (held in Bonn, October 12–16, 2016), which was attended as a guest at the suggestion of Professor Küpper, and the invitation of the scholarly committee, consisting of Professors Claudia Olk, Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf, David E.