Contents

Preface

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

Plato’s Gorgias

Plato’s Phaedrus

Isocrates

The Rhetoric for Alexander

Aristotle

CHAPTER FOUR

The Attic Orators

Lysias

Demosthenes

CHAPTER FIVE

Hellenistic Rhetoric

Theophrastus

Later Peripatetics

Demetrius, On Style

The Stoics

The Academics

The Epicureans

Asianism

Hermagoras and Stasis Theory

CHAPTER SIX

Early Roman Rhetoric

Cato the Elder

Roman Orators of the Late Second and Early First Centuries B.C.

Latin Rhetoricians

Cicero’s On Invention

The Rhetoric for Herennius

CHAPTER SEVEN

Cicero

Cicero’s Orations in the Years from 81 to 56 B.C.

On the Orator

For Milo and Cicero’s Later Speeches

Brutus and Orator

CHAPTER EIGHT

Rhetoric in Augustan Rome

Greek Rhetoricians of the Second Half of the First Century B.C.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus

Declamation and Seneca the Elder

CHAPTER NINE

Latin Rhetoric in the Silver Age

Quintilian

Discussions of the “Decline of Eloquence”

Pliny the Younger

Fronto and Gellius

Apuleius

CHAPTER TEN

Greek Rhetoric under the Roman Empire

Progymnasmata

Hermogenes and the Formation of the Hermogenic Corpus

Prolegomena

Other Greek Rhetorical Treatises

CHAPTER ELEVEN

The Second Sophistic

Dio Chrysostom

Polemon and Herodes Atticus

Aelius Aristides

Sophistry from the Late Second to the Early Fourth Century

The Sophistic Renaissance of the Fourth Century

Prohaeresius

Himerius

Libanius

Themistius

Synesius

The “University” of Constantinople

The School of Gaza

The Decline of the Schools

CHAPTER TWELVE

Christianity and Classical Rhetoric

Christian Panegyric

Gregory of Nazianzus

Other Major Figures of the Fourth Century

The Latin Fathers

Saint Augustine

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

The Survival of Classical Rhetoric from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages

The Decline in the East

The Decline in the West

Latin Grammarians of Later Antiquity

The “Minor” Latin Rhetoricians

Martianus Capella

Cassiodorus

Isidore of Seville

Other Late Latin Works on Rhetoric

Bede and Alcuin

Boethius

Bibliography

Index