Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times

by George A. Kennedy

Book Overview

A revised and updated edition of the popular and widely used guide to the classical tradition of rhetoric from its development in ancient Greece and Rome to the 20th-century.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807840580
• ISBN13: 9780807840580
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A Must-Have for Classical Schools

Beyond "excellent" in content and detail, this book can be described as an "anthology of summaries and reviews" of classical writers from Homer to Umberto Eco. For those involved in the Classical Christian school movement, Kennedy's book helps to explain how Jewish scholars assigned authority differently from the Greeks and how both the Greek and Jewish traditions carried on into the Christian era. The book addresses both the content and artistry of classical rhetoric, is well-indexed and documented, and includes an excellent bibliography. Highly readable as well, this survey (in my opinion) should be in every library in a classical school.