By Laurent Pernot
Originally released as La Rhétorique dans l'Antiquité (2000), this new English version offers scholars with a helpful advent to knowing the classical paintings of rhetoric and its position in historic society and politics. Rhetoric shaped a vital a part of instructing and normal tradition. this present day it provides necessary keys to addressing present difficulties in literary conception, philosophy and aesthetics, conversation, and political or felony debate. It bears a physique of data approximately reasoning and language, a vocabulary nonetheless in use, and transcends conventional limitations among disciplines and periods.
Written through a number one pupil of classical rhetoric, Laurent Pernot, the booklet bargains an entire description of historical rhetoric within the Greco-Roman interval, from Homer and classical Athens, during the Hellenistic international, Roman Republic, and Roman Empire, as much as the appearance of Christianity, explaining the evolutions, illuminating the most subject matters, and stressing the major moments and figures. The publication features a glossary giving an inventory and rationalization of all of the technical phrases, a lot of that are nonetheless in use in modern language.
Laurent Pernot is Professor of Greek Language and Literature on the college of Strasbourg and President of the overseas Society for the historical past of Rhetoric. he's the writer of diverse books and articles.
Praise for the book:
"Laurent Pernot's concise and authoritative account of rhetoric in Graeco-Roman antiquity appears to be like now in a sublime English translation by means of William Higgins. This translation is going way past the unique French version and is greater than a consultant to what the Greeks and Romans thought of speech. Terminology and perform are given equivalent weight. Pernot has incorporated specific dialogue of frustrating matters in an excursus structure that enriches his exposition with out disrupting it. this is often through a ways the simplest and the main well timed creation to classical rhetoric recognized to me."―G. W. Bowersock, Institute for complicated learn (Princeton)
"Pernot is likely one of the best historians of rhetoric around the world, and what he says calls for critical attention. He possesses encyclopedic wisdom of the interval, and he writes sincerely and cleanly. The publication is great, in scholarly caliber and in accessibility."―Craig Kallendorf, Texas A&M college
"A wonderfully nuanced remedy of historic rhetoric either as thought and perform. Pernot's mastery of contextual element enlivens his discussions of person orators, placing human faces at the public texts that experience survived from Greek and Roman societies."―James J. Murphy, college of California, Davis
"Pernot deals many new interpretations of the background of rhetoric, provides nuance and discrimination to many earlier understandings, and overturns or takes us previous a sequence of understandings that prevailed previous; in each one case he does so at the foundation of the main good and present scholarship."―Lawrence D. eco-friendly, college of Southern California
"A entire, concise, but by no means simplistic evaluation of historic rhetorical perform and concept. . . . An exemplary creation that provides a brilliant and transparent photo of the field."―Classical Review
"Laurent Pernot is understood around the globe between students of classical rhetoric, and this English translation of his survey may still now make him well known between English-speaking scholars as well...The book...is a delightful and informative e-book that's transparent and simple to learn. It excels while featuring rhetoric in a social and philosophic context. Rhetoric grows inside of a neighborhood, and Pernot will regularly support the reader see rhetoric as a part of a bigger cultural whole...Pernot elegantly offers concerns, giving a resounding experience of the harmony and sweep of rhetoric within the classical world...Pernot effectively weaves jointly perform and conception, rhetoric and philosophy...This is an engag
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He taught and delivered orations in various Greek cities and in Thessaly. We have four of his works: — The treatise On the Nonexistent or On Nature is a work of paradoxes which considers the concept of Being according to a demonstra- 16 Rhetoric in Antiquity tion with three points: () Nothing is or exists; () If something does exist, this something cannot be apprehended by man; () If this something can be apprehended, it cannot be communicated. Philosophy and rhetoric are indissolubly linked in the author’s approach, as he undertakes at the same time a critique of ontology and a demonstration of virtuosic argumentation.
The Hippocratic Collection preserves some examples of such lectures, namely the treatises Concerning the Winds and On Art, dating from the last quarter of the fifth century. They are really speeches of persuasion—the second is a polemic—in an ornate style. The display could just as well take the form of an antilogy, setting forth opposing opinions, with a debate in several rounds and stages of cross-examination. l. , modified). l. or rather, Gorgias, do you tell us yourself in what art it is you are skilled, and hence, what we ought to call you.
Without either the good voice or the confidence necessary for speaking before a crowd, he did not appear before the public, and he abstained from all physical participation in political debate, contenting himself with reading his works in private groups and publishing written versions. We possess twenty-one speeches (one of which, To Demonikos, is probably spurious), extending from to , as well as some letters. The Peloponnesian War having ruined his family, he began by plying the trade of logographer for about a dozen years.