Companion to Greek Rhetoric

Ian Worthington is Frederick A. Middlebush Professor of History at the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA. His previous publications include Demosthenes: Statesman and Orator (2000), Alexander the Great: A Reader (2003), and a biography, Alexander the Great: Man and God (2004).

• Notes on Contributors viiiPreface: For Readers – and Reviewers xNotes xiiAbbreviations xiiiSpeeches of the Attic Orators xivPart I Setting the Scene 11 Rhetorical Questions 3Edward Schiappa and Jim Hamm2 Modern Interpretations of Classical Greek Rhetoric 16Takis PoulakosPart II Rhetoric: A Brief History 253 Background and Origins: Oratory and Rhetoric before the Sophists 27Michael Gagarin4 Gorgias the Sophist and Early Rhetoric 37Jeroen A.E. Bons5 Alcidamas 47Michael Edwards6 Isocrates 58Terry L. Papillon7 Plato’s Rhetoric 75Harvey Yunis8 The Rhetoric to Alexander 90P. Chiron9 Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric 107W.W. Fortenbaugh10 Hellenistic Rhetoric in Theory and Practice 124John Vanderspoel11 The New World Order: Greek Rhetoric in Rome 139Joy Connolly12 Rhetoric in Byzantium 166Elizabeth JeffreysPart III Rhetoric and Speeches 18513 The Parts of the Speech 187Michael de Brauw14 Forensic Oratory 203Craig Cooper15 Symbouleutic Oratory 220Stephen Usher16 Epideictic Oratory 236Christopher CareyPart IV Rhetoric: Political, Social and Intellectual Contexts 25317 Rhetoric and Politics in Classical Greece: Rise of the Rhe¯tores 255Ian Worthington18 Rhetoric and Persuasion in the Hellenistic World: Speaking up for the Polis 272Andrew Erskine19 Rhetoric and the Law 286James P. Sickinger20 Rhetoric and Education 303Teresa Morgan21 Rhetoric and Religion 320Ken Dowden22 Rhetoric and Language 336A. Lopez Eire23 Rhetoric and Logic 350James Allen24 Rhetoric and Knowledge 365Tobias Reinhardt25 Rhetoric and Ethics from the Sophists to Aristotle 378Jane M. Day26 Rhetoric, Manliness and Contest 393Joseph Roisman27 Rhetoric and Emotion 411David KonstanPart V Rhetoric and Literature 42728 Right Rhetoric in Homer 429Hanna M. Roisman29 Hesiod’s Rhetorical Art 447Jenny Strauss Clay30 Acts of Persuasion in Hellenistic Epic: Honey-Sweet Words in Apollonius 458Anatole Mori31 Rhetoric and Tragedy: Weapons of Mass Persuasion 473Marianne McDonald32 Attic Comedy and the Development of Theoretical Rhetoric 490Thomas K. Hubbard33 Rhetoric and Lyric Poetry 509William H. Race34 Rhetoric and the Novel: Sex, Lies and Sophistic 526Ruth Webb35 Rhetoric and Historiography 542Matthew Fox and Niall LivingstoneBibliography 562Index 594

"This Companion contains strong contributions.... Andrew Erskine's excellent chapter on the practical side of Hellenistic rhetoric; and Teresa Moragn manages a broad coverage of rhetoric and education." (Greece & Rome, 2008) "Exploring rhetoric from a variety of sociohistorical and thematic contexts from the Homeric to the Byzantine period, this companion sets a standard that should serve the discipline for some years to come." (Choice) “The editor…has provided us with a fresh overview of important areas…in chapters that bristle with information and insight. The volume has been well edited.” (Bryn Mawr Classical Review)"A well planned and constructed volume is presented in an equally well-constructed series [Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World]." (Reference Reviews)