A Companion to Roman Rhetoric

A Companion to Roman Rhetoric introduces the reader to the wide-ranging importance of rhetoric in Roman culture. A guide to Roman rhetoric from its origins to the Renaissance and beyond. Comprises 32 original essays by leading international scholars. Explores major figures Cicero and Quintilian in-depth. Covers a broad range of topics such as rhetoric and politics, gender, status, self-identity, education, and literature. Provides suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter. Includes a glossary of technical terms and an index of proper names and rhetorical concepts.

William Dominik is Professor of Classics at the University of Otago. He is a contributor to A Companion to Ancient Epic (2005) and A Companion to the Classical Tradition (2006). He has also published numerous books, chapters, and articles on Roman literature and other topics.

Jon Hall is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Otago. He is the author of numerous articles and chapters on Cicero’s oratory and rhetorical treatises. He has also completed a book on Cicero’s correspondence.

Notes on Contributors
Preface
Texts and Abbreviations
Approaching Rhetoric
Confronting Roman Rhetoric
Modern Critical Approaches to Roman Rhetoric
Greek Rhetoric Meets Rome: Expansion, Resistance, and Acculturation
Native Roman Rhetoric: Plautus and Terence
Roman Oratory Before Cicero: The Elder Cato and Gaius Gracchus
Rhetoric and Its Social Context
Rhetorical Education and Social Reproduction in the Republic and Early Empire
Virile Tongues: Rhetoric and Masculinity
Oratory, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Republic
Oratory and Politics in the Empire
Roman Senatorial Oratory
Panegyric
Roman Oratorical Invective
Systematizing Rhetoric
Roman Rhetorical Handbooks
Elocutio: Latin Prose Style
Memory and the Roman Orator
Wit and Humor in Roman Rhetoric
Oratorical Delivery and the Emotions: Theory and Practice
Rhetoricians and Orators
Lost Orators of Rome
Cicero as Rhetorician
Cicero as Orator
Grammarians and Rhetoricians
Roman Declamation: The Elder Seneca and Quintilian
Quintilian as Rhetorician and Teacher
Tacitus and Pliny on Oratory
Rhetoric and the Second Sophistic
Roman Rhetoric and its Afterlife
Rhetoric and Roman Literature
Rhetoric and Literature at Rome
Rhetoric and Epic: Vergil's Aeneid and Lucan's Bellum Civile
Rhetoric and Satire: Horace, Persius, and Juvenal
Rhetoric and Ovid
Rhetoric and the Younger Seneca
Rhetoric and Historiography
Bibliography
Glossary of Technical Terms
Index Locorum
General Index
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