1. Introduction I. Continuity and Innovation 2. The Second Century: Transformation 3. The Third Century: Fruition II. Menander of Laodicea 4. Menander: Testimonia and Fragments 5. The Demosthenes Scholia 6. Menander's Commentary III. Classroom and Career 7. Teaching 8. Technography 9. The Relevance of Rhetoric
Ancient schools of rhetoric taught students how to devise arguments in legal and political disputes, and how to express them. This reassessment of the history and social significance of rhetoric in late antiquity shows how it was taught, and why the skills it promoted were still believed to have a direct application.
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- Introduction I. Continuity and Innovation 2. The Second Century: Transformation 3. The Third Century: Fruition II. Menander of Laodicea 4. Menander: Testimonia and Fragments 5. The Demosthenes Scholia 6. Menander's Commentary III. Classroom and Career 7. Teaching 8. Technography 9. The Relevance of Rhetoric
Ancient schools of rhetoric taught students how to devise arguments in legal and political disputes, and how to express them. This reassessment of the history and social significance of rhetoric in late antiquity shows how it was taught, and why the skills it promoted were still believed to have a direct application.
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This book undertakes a fundamental assessment of Menander of Laodicea ('Menander Rhetor'), and of the nature and functions of rhetoric in later antiquity (second to fifth centuries AD). It examines Menander's fragments, collected here for the first time, in detail, showing that he was primarily an expert on judicial and deliberative oratory; a source-critical analysis of the Demosthenes scholia shows that his influential commentary on Demosthenes can be partiallyreconstructed. It explores the educational practices of the rhetorical schools, and shows that the skills which they taught still had a direct application in the subsequent careers of the rhetoricians'pupils.
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“"This book's modest title does not do justice to Heath's brilliant accomplishment in this reassessment of rhetorical history in the late ancient period.... Provides not only an excellent synthesis of late ancient rhetoric ranging from Quintilian (first century) to early Byzantine sophists and rhetors, but also an admirable example of source scholarship. This clearly written and intelligently argued book opens this subject to a broad audience. Essential."--Choice”
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Malcolm Heath is Professor of Greek in the Department of Classics, University of Leeds.
This book undertakes a fundamental assessment of Menander of Laodicea ('Menander Rhetor'), and of the nature and functions of rhetoric in later antiquity (second to fifth centuries AD). It examines Menander's fragments, collected here for the first time, in detail, showing that he was primarily an expert on judicial and deliberative oratory; a source-critical analysis of the Demosthenes scholia shows that his influential commentary on Demosthenes can be partially reconstructed. It explores the educational practices of the rhetorical schools, and shows that the skills which they taught still had a direct application in the subsequent careers of the rhetoricians' pupils.
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