Rhetoric and Power: The Drama of Classical Greece

by Nathan Crick

Book Overview

An examination of how intellectuals and artists conceptualized rhetoric as a medium of power in a dynamic age of democracy and empire

In Rhetoric and Power, Nathan Crick dramatizes the history of rhetoric by explaining its origin and development in classical Greece beginning the oral displays of Homeric eloquence in a time of kings, following its ascent to power during the age of Pericles and the Sophists, and ending with its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611179815
• ISBN13: 9781611179811
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"