Introduction to Classical Rhetoric

James D. Williams is Professor of Rhetoric & Linguistics and a former Director of the Writing Program at Soka University. He is the author of many books, including The Teacher's Grammar Book (2e, 2005) and Visions and Revisions: Continuity and Change in Rhetoric and Composition (2002).

• Acknowledgments xiiIntroduction 1Part I: Classical Greek Rhetoric 71 Introduction to Greek Rhetoric 92 Female Voices 373 The Sophists 514 Plato on Philosophy and Rhetoric 1085 Aristotle and the Systemization of Rhetoric 222Part II: Classical Roman Rhetoric 2716 Introduction to Roman Rhetoric and Oratory 2737 Cicero and the Latinization of Greek Rhetoric 3168 Horace and the Revival of Poetry 3769 Quintilian the Educator 39210 The End of the Classical Period: Libanius and Augustine 416References 527Sources 536Index 539Plates appear between pp. 276 and 277