Rhetoric, Ancient
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Rhetoric at Rome
Literary texts and the Roman historian
Classical Closure
Aristotle's Rhetoric
The Renaissance rediscovery of intimacy
Formula, Character, and Context
The rhetoric of interruption
Herodotus and his "sources"
Ancient rhetorics for contemporary students
Valerius Maximus & the rhetoric of the new nobility
Rhetoric in the Middle Ages
Γοργίας
Contexts of war
The narrative voice in the Theogony of Hesiod
Theory and the evasion of history
Tradition and design in the Iliad
Gestures and acclamations in ancient Rome
Apuleius
A synoptic history of classical rhetoric
The Face of Nature
Classical rhetoric for the modern student
The Greek world of Apuleius
Readings in classical rhetoric
Eloquence and the proclamation of the gospel in Corinth
Seduction and repetition in Ovid's Ars amatoria 2
Statius Thebaid VII
Medieval Reading
Encyclopedia of rhetoric and composition
Theopompus of Chios
Rhetoric at Rome
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