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CLASSICAL RHETORIC
AND ITS CHRISTIAN
AND SECULAR TRADITION
FROM ANCIENT TO
MODERN TIMES
CLASSICAL
RHETORIC
& Its Christian & Secular
Tradition from Ancient to
Modern Times
second edition, revised and enlarged
E A. KENNEDY
The University of North Carolina Press
Chapel Hill and London
∫ 1999
The University of North Carolina Press
All rights reserved
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kennedy, e Alexander, 1928–
Classical rhetoric and its Christian and secular tradition from
ancient to modern times / by e A. Kennedy. — 2nd ed.,
rev. and enl.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 0-8078-2467-4 (cloth : alk. paper).
isbn 0-8078-4769-0 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Rhetoric—History. I. Title.
1999
808—dc21 98-34331
cip
030201009954321
contents
Preface to the Second Edition, ix
chapter 1. traditional and conceptual rhetoric, 1
Rhetoric in the Homeric Poems, 5
The Literate Revolution, 12
Technical, Sophistic, and Philosophical Rhetoric, 13
Women in Classical Rhetoric, 15
chapter 2. technical rhetoric, 20
Progymnasmata, 26
chapter 3. sophistic rhetoric, 29
The Tetralogies Attributed to Antiphon, 30
Gorgias, 34
Sophistry as Play, 36
Isocrates, 38
Declamation, 44
The Second Sophistic, 47
Sophists and Politics, 50
chapter 4. philosophical rhetoric, 53
Plato’s Apology of Socrates, 55
Plato’s Gorgias, 58
Plato’s Phaedrus, 66
Aristotle, 74
The Philosophical Tradition after Aristotle, 93
Dialectic and Rhetoric in Antiquity, 95
chapter 5. rhetoric in the roman period, 98
Hermagoras, 99
Rhetoric at Rome, 100
Cicero’s On Invention, 101
Rhetoric for Herennius, 108
Cicero’s Dialogue On the Orator, 113
Quintilian’s Educat