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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- “great clean copy, no bends,”
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Subject Area
- Applied Linguistics
- Modified Item
- yes
- Educational Level
- Adult & Further Education
- Subject
- Rhetoric, Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek
- Personalized
- Yes
- Level
- Advanced
- ISBN
- 9780773465060
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Mellen Press, T.H.E., Edwin
ISBN-10
0773465065
ISBN-13
9780773465060
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30203959
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
772 Pages
Publication Name
Translation and Commentary on the Lectures on Greek Rhetoric by Pedro Nunes : The Art of Public Speaking
Language
Lat,Eng
Subject
Rhetoric
Publication Year
2004
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Language Arts & Disciplines
Series
Studies in Classics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
22.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2003-068616
Dewey Edition
22
Series Volume Number
Vol. 28
Number of Volumes
2 vols.
Original Language
Latin
Dewey Decimal
808.5/1
Synopsis
This book contains an introduction to the rhetorical theories put forward by the most important ancient Greek rhetoricians, followed by a modern English translation of the Latin version of their commentaries in Hermogenes' seminal work on stasis-theory, the basis for writing any sort of speech for a law-court or for public use. Rhetoric today is extremely important in public life, as any politician's speech-writer knows, and the work by Syrianus, Sopater and Marcellimus translated in this book remain the foundations on which all theories of public speaking are built. When Pedro Nunes translated the original texts, no doubt from the recently published Aldine text, he was lecturing to the brightest young law students in Lisbon in the 16th century. It is unique in that in Europe at that time all other works on rhetoric were based on Cicero and Quintilian. The modern English translation will be of great use for students, as it will give them access to the basic theories of speech-writing, well exemplified with plenty of apposite quotations from leading Greek orators, especially Demosthenes, and from major events in Greek history. This version contains the original Latin as well as the
LC Classification Number
PN4105.N86 2004
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