Progymnasmata: Greek Textbooks of Prose Composition and Rhetoric

Description: Several of these works have never before been translated into English and are made accessible to the general reader for the first time. George A. Kennedy, one of the world's leading scholars of ancient rhetoric, provides an English translation of four Greek treatises written during the time of the Roman empire but studied throughout the Roman and Byzantine periods--works attributed to Theon, Hermogenes, Aphthonius, and Nicolaus. Also included are translations of the fragments of Sopatros' treatise as well as John of Sardis' commentary on these exercises. The progymnasmata were fundamental to the teaching of prose composition and elementary rhetoric in European schools from the Hellenistic period to early modern times. The habits of thinking and writing learned in schools molded not only the secular literature of the Greeks and Romans, but also the writings of the early Christians through the patristic period.

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EAN: 9781589830615

UPC: 9781589830615

ISBN: 9781589830615

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Book Title: Progymnasmata: Greek Textbooks of Prose Compositio

Item Height: 1.6 cm

Item Length: 23 cm

Item Weight: 0.31 kg

Item Width: 15.2 cm

Number of Pages: 256 Pages

Publication Name: Progymnasmata : Greek Textbooks of Prose Composition and Rhetoric

Language: Eng,Gre

Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature

Subject: Ancient Languages (See Also Latin), Rhetoric

Publication Year: 2003

Type: Textbook

Author: George Alexander Kennedy

Subject Area: Foreign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines

Series: Writings from the Greco-Roman World Ser.

Format: Trade Paperback