Greek Drama and the Invention of Rhetoric, Sansone 9781118357088 New Har^+

Greek Drama and the Invention of RhetoricAuthor(s): David Sansone\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Wiley-Blackwell\nISBN-13: 9781118357088, 978-1118357088\nSynopsis\nGREEK DRAMA and the Invention of Rhetoric An impressively erudite, elegantly crafted argument for reversing what everybody knows about the relation of two literary genres that played before mass audiences in the Athenian city state. \n\nVictor Bers, Yale University \n\nSansones book is first-rate and should be read by any scholar interested in the origins of Greek rhetorical theory or, for that matter, interested in Greek tragedy. That Greek tragedy contains elements properly described as rhetorical is familiar, but Sansone goes far beyond this understanding by putting Greek tragedy at the heart of a counter-narrative of those origins. \n\nEdward Schiappa, The University of Minnesota \n\nThis book challenges the standard view that formal rhetoric arose in response to the pol.