Menander Rhetor. Dionysius of Halicarnassus: Ars Rhetorica

by Menander Rhetor and Dionysius of Halicarnassus

How to write a speech in ancient Greek.

This volume contains three rhetorical treatises dating probably from the reign of Diocletian (AD 285-312) that provide instruction on how to compose epideictic (display) speeches for a wide variety of occasions both public and private. Two are attributed to one Menander Rhetor of Laodicea (in southwestern Turkey); the third, known as the Ars Rhetorica, incorrectly to the earlier historian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674997220
• ISBN13: 9780674997226
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.3"