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Persuasion
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The poetry of the Aeneid
When the lamp is shattered
Jesus, rhetoric, and law
Ad C. Herennium de ratione dicendi (Rhetorica ad Herennium)
The Attic orators from Antiphon to Isaeos
Blood and iron
The making of Homeric verse
The Knotted Thong
The " art" of rhetoric
A new history of classical rhetoric
The rhetoric of conspiracy in ancient Athens
Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres
Rhetoric at Rome
The Greek orators
Literary texts and the Roman historian
Classical Closure
Archery at the Dark of the Moon
The Renaissance rediscovery of intimacy
Formula, Character, and Context
The rhetoric of interruption
Herodotus and his "sources"
Ancient rhetorics for contemporary students
Logos and power in Isocrates and Aristotle
Valerius Maximus & the rhetoric of the new nobility
Institutio oratoria
Arguments in rhetoric against Quintilian
Συμπόσιον / Φαῖδρος
Rhetoric in the Middle Ages
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