CHAPTER ONE
Introduction: The Nature of Rhetoric
CHAPTER TWO
Persuasion in Greek Literature before 400 B.C.
CHAPTER THREE
Greek Rhetorical Theory from Corax to Aristotle
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
Roman Orators of the Late Second and Early First Centuries B.C.
CHAPTER SEVEN
Cicero’s Orations in the Years from 81 to 56 B.C.
For Milo and Cicero’s Later Speeches
CHAPTER EIGHT
Greek Rhetoricians of the Second Half of the First Century B.C.
Declamation and Seneca the Elder
CHAPTER NINE
Latin Rhetoric in the Silver Age
Discussions of the “Decline of Eloquence”
CHAPTER TEN
Greek Rhetoric under the Roman Empire
Hermogenes and the Formation of the Hermogenic Corpus
Other Greek Rhetorical Treatises
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Sophistry from the Late Second to the Early Fourth Century
The Sophistic Renaissance of the Fourth Century
The “University” of Constantinople
CHAPTER TWELVE
Christianity and Classical Rhetoric
Other Major Figures of the Fourth Century
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
The Survival of Classical Rhetoric from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Latin Grammarians of Later Antiquity
The “Minor” Latin Rhetoricians