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Menander

A Rhetor in Context

Malcolm Heath author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:29th Jul '04

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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 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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ISBN: 9780199259205

Dimensions: 223mm x 147mm x 27mm

Weight: 597g

394 pages