The Origins of Rhetoric in Ancient Greece

by Thomas Cole and Professor A. Thomas Cole

Book Overview

Is it fair to judge early Green rhetoric by the standards of Plato and Aristotle? In The Origins of Rhetoric in Anceint Greece, Thomas Cole argues that it is not; yet this is precisely the path taken by current scholarship on the subject.

Arguing against this view, Cole sees early Greek rhetoric as largely unsystematic efforts to explore, more by example then by precept, all aspects of discouse. (One might as well term these efforts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801851181
• ISBN13: 9780801851186
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"