The Chreia and Ancient Rhetoric: Classroom Exercises

by Ronald F. Hock

Reading, writing an inflected language, and composing an argument were among the skills taught in Greco-Roman schools. At all three curricular levels students developed these skills by learning how to use a literary form known as the chreia, or anecdote. Beginners at the primary level learned to read and write by copying different examples of the chreia. Students at the secondary level used it to learn how to decline nouns and conjugate verbs and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589830180
• ISBN13: 9781589830189
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 411 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"