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Menander: A Rhetor in Context Heath, Malcolm (, Professor of Greek, Department of Classics, University of Leeds)
Menander: A Rhetor in Context
Heath, Malcolm (, Professor of Greek, Department of Classics, University of Leeds)
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.
396 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | July 29, 2004 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199259205 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 394 |
| Dimensions | 142 × 223 × 28 mm · 658 g |
| Language | English |