Isbn: 9789004122130 - the orator in action and theory in greece and rome: essays in honor of george a. kennedy (mnemosyne, supplements) (1 Ergebnisse)

Large octavo (245 x 165 mm), publisher's illustrated hardcover, XVII (+I), 172 (+2) pp., with a few b/w-illustrations in the text, previous owner's stamp to front fly leaf (Exlibris H. S. Versnel), a well preserved copy. [MnS - Mnemosyne Supplements; 225]. - ISBN: 9004122133. - Contents/Inhalt : How good should an orator be? / Øivind Andersen -- What the laws have prejudged : [Paragraf?] and early issue theory / Edwin Carawan -- The superfluous bag : rhetoric and display in the Histories of Herodotus / Sheila Murnaghan -- Rhetoric, art, and myth : Isocrates and Busiris / Terry L. Papillon -- Julius Caesar, the orator of paradox / A.D. Leeman -- Shifting charge and shifty argument in Cicero's Speech for Sestius / Christopher Craig -- Cicero's Pro Milone / James M. May -- Returning to Tacitus' Dialogus / Michael Winterbottom -- Figured speeches : "Dionysius," Art of rhetoric, VIII-IX / D.A. Russell. Chiefly papers presented at a conference held October 1998, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in honor of George Kennedy.; Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; "Publications of George Alexander Kennedy" --P. [ix]-xvii. ||| Oratory, Ancient; Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek History and criticism; Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin History and criticism - Oratorium, Antike; Reden, Ansprachen usw., Griechisch Geschichte und Kritik; Reden, Ansprachen usw., Latein Geschichte und Kritik - [00B | SOD | oR ] 490 g.…