MICHELLE BALLIF is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Franklin College Writing Intensive Program at the University of Georgia. Her work has appeared in such journals as Rhetoric Review, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and JAC, and she is the co-editor of Twentieth-Century Rhetoric and Rhetoricians (Greenwood, 2000).MICHAEL G. MORAN is Graduate Coordinator and Associate Professor of English at the University of Georgia. His many books include Research in Composition and Rhetoric (1984), Research in Technical Communication (1985), Research in Basic Writing (1990), Eighteenth-Century British and American Rhetorics and Rhetoricians (1994), and Twentieth-Century Rhetoric and Rhetoricians (2000), all available from Greenwood Press.

• Introduction by Michelle Ballif and Michael G. MoranAlcidamas by Neil O'SullivanAnaximenes, Rhetorica ad Alexandrum by Sean Patrick O'RourkeAntiphon by Michael GagarinAnonymous Seguerianus by Parker LuchteApsines of Gadara by Sean Patrick O'RourkeAristides, Aelius by Jeffrey WalkerAristotle by Janet AtwillAspasia of Miletus by Kathleen Ethel Welch and Karen D. JobeAttic Orators: Demosthenes, Aeschines, and Lysias by David Christopher RyanAugustinus, Aurelius (Saint) by Roxanne MountfordBoethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus by Beth S. BennettChrysostom, John by Justin Killian and David M. TimmermanCicero, Marcus Tullius by Richard Leo EnosCorax and Tisias by Wilfred E. MajorCornelia by D. Alexis HartDemetrius of Phaleron by Lara O'SullivanDemetrius, On Style by Scott G. ReedDio (Chrysostom) Cocceianus by George PullmanDiogenes of Sinope by Victor J. Vitanza and D. Diane DavisDionysius of Halicarnassus by Jeffrey WalkerDiotima of Mantinea by C. Jan SwearingenDissoi Logoi by Edward SchiappaFavorinus by Victor J. VitanzaFronto, M. Cornelius by Gary HatchGorgias by John PoulakosGregory of Nazianzus by Roxanne MountfordHeraclitus by John T. KirbyHermagoras of Temnos by Beth S. BennettHermogenes of Tarsus by Janet B. DavisHerodes Atticus by Angela MitchellHimerius by Charles PlatterHippias of Elis by Jane SuttonHomer by Patrick O'SullivanHortensia by D. Alexis HartHypatia by Elizabeth ErvinSocrates by Takis PoulakosLibanius by George Pullman"Longinus," On the Sublime by Hans KellnerMenander of Laodicea by Martin M. JacobsenPericles by David M. TimmermanPhilodemus by Robert N. GainesPhilostratus by Jerry L. Miller and Raymie McKerrowPlato by Yun Lee TooPliny the Younger by Joy ConnollyPlutarch by Hans KellnerPolemo, Marcus Antonius by Grant BoswellProdicus of Ceos by Neil O'SullivanProgymnasmata by Christy DesmetProtagoras by Edward SchiappaPythagorean Women by Ekaterina HaskinsQuintilianus, Fabius by Joy ConnollyRhetorica ad Herennium by Richard Leo EnosSappho by David M. TimmermanSeneca the Elder by Beth S. BennettSeneca the Younger by Michael G. MoranSextus Empiricus by Robert N. GainesSocrates by Christopher Lyle JohnstoneTacitus, Cornelius by Eizabeth ErvinTheophrastus by Christy DesmetThrasymachus by Patrick O'SullivanVerginius Flavus by Daniel R. FrederickBibliographic Essay by Michelle Ballif and Michael G. Moran

The current consensus among scholars is that rhetoric and its histories are culturally constructed rhetorical acts. This supposition has stimulated research that revises the history of rhetoric--history established by such venerable scholars as James Murphy and George Kennedy--into a more inclusive history of rhetorics. Although this book could not exist without the codified historical narrative it challenges by deemphasizing the universal in favor of the particular, clearly its time has come. Ballif and Moran provide an excellent and succinct introduction that surveys the current state of historical scholarship and establishes three goals: to encourage readers to think of rhetoric as including figures who challenge the established canon (the book includes nontraditional as well as traditional figures--women, poets, pre-Socratic philosophers, etc.); to reshuffle the deck of future influence by spotlighting less traditional figures; and to open readers' eyes to the contemporary application and significance of rhetoric….Although this volume will not displace the revised histories, it will supplement them and cannot be ignored. Essential. All collections; all levels.