Epideictic Rhetoric – Questioning the Stakes of Ancient Praise Pernot Hardback
Epideictic Rhetoric\nby Laurent Pernot\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Laurent Pernot\nTitle: Epideictic Rhetoric\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval\nPublisher: University of Texas Press\nPublication year: 2015\nISBN-13: 9780292768208\nISBN-10: 0292768206\nRRP: \u00A339.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nSpeeches of praise and blame constituted a form of oratory put to brilliant and creative use in the classical Greek period (fifth to fourth century BC) and the Roman imperial period (first to fourth century AD), and they have influenced public speakers through all the succeeding ages. Yet unlike the other classical genres of rhetoric, epideictic rhetoric remains something of a mystery. It was the least important genre at the .
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