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The Art of Rhetoric in Alexandria - Its Theory and Practice in the Ancient World (Paperback, 1974 ed.)
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The Art of Rhetoric in Alexandria - Its Theory and Practice in the Ancient World (Paperback, 1974 ed.)
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Goethe's great love for the ancient classics once prompted him to
write ("Gesprliche mit Eckerman," April 1, 1827), "Man studiere
nicht die Mitgeborenen und Mitstrebenden, sondern grosse Menschen
der Vorzeit, deren Werke seit Jahrhunderten gleichen Wert und
gleiches Ansehen behalten haben . . . Man studiere Moliere, man
studiere Shakespeare, aber vor allen Dingen die alten Griechen und
immer die alten Griechen. " Anyone examining the history of Western
ideas has found this statement to prove eminently true: one must
study above all others the ancient Greeks. This book, by its study
of the Greeks and others, seeks to fill in a small way the large
gap which has obtained in the history of rhetoric in the Eastern
Mediterranean area: the rhetoric (formal spoken discourse) of the
courtroom, street corner, classroom, and legislative hall. Scholars
have long investigated, and with considerable success, the figures
and movements in Rome and Athens until Con stantine, or even later,
but for some reason they have neglected the role and impact of
oratory in most Asian and North African centers (Antioch excepted).
If this monograph can provide outlines of its activity in
Greco-Roman Alexandria to approximately A. D. 400 and encourage
further scholarship in Pergamum, Tarsus, and elsewhere, it will
have fulfilled its purpose. At the same time, it is not intended as
a history of the city, nor an economic, political, or religious
account of its life."
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