Greek Rhetoric Before Aristotle

Richard Leo Enos

• Publisher: Parlor Press, LLC
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9781602352124
• eBook ISBN: 9781602352148
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Greek Ancient History

Recent archaeological discoveries, coupled with long-lost but now available epigraphical evidence, and a more expansive view of literary sources, provide new and dramatic evidence of the emergence of rhetoric in ancient Greece. Many of these artifacts, gathered through onsite fieldwork in Greece, are analyzed in this revised and expanded edition of Greek Rhetoric Before Aristotle. This new evidence, along with recent developments in research methods and analysis, reveal clearly that long before Aristotle's Rhetoric, long before rhetoric was even stabilized into formal systems of study in Classical Athens, nascent, pre-disciplinary "rhetorics" were emerging throughout Greece.

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Foreword to the Revised and Expanded Edition
• Preface
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Recovering the Lost Art of Researching the History of Rhetoric
• I. Emerging Notions of Rhetoric
• II. Oral and Literate Composition in the Pre-Rhetorical Period
• III. Literate Rhetoric in the Archaic Period
• IV. The Birth of Hellenic Rhetoric and the Growth of the Sicilian Sophistic
• V. Significant Contributors to Sicilian Rhetoric
• VI. The “Art” of Literate Rhetoric
• VII. The Secret Composition Practices of the Ancient Spartans
• VIII. The Platonic Rejection of Sophistic Rhetoric and Its Hellenic Reception
• IX. Conclusion
• Works Consulted
• Works Cited
• Index
• About the Author
• Back cover