A Companion to Greek Rhetoric

Preface: For Readers -- and Reviewers.

Notes.

Abbreviations.

Speeches of the Attic Orators.

Part I: Setting the Scene.

1. Rhetorical Questions (Edward Schiappa and Jim Hamm).

2. Modern Interpretations of Classical Greek Rhetoric (Takis Poulakos).

Part II: Rhetoric: A Brief History.

3. Background and Origins: Oratory and Rhetoric before the Sophists (Michael Gagarin).

4. Gorgias the Sophist and Early Rhetoric (Jeroen A. E. Bons)

5. Alcidamas (Michael Edwards).

6. Isocrates (Terry L. Papillon).

7. Plato's Rhetoric (Harvey Yunis).

8. The Rhetoric to Alexander (P. Chiron).

9. Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric (W.W. Fortenbaugh).

10. Hellenistic Rhetoric in Theory and Practice (John Vanderspoel).

11. The New World Order: Greek Rhetoric in Rome (Joy Connolly).

12. Rhetoric in Byzantium (Elizabeth Jeffreys).

Part III: Rhetoric and Speeches.

13. The Parts of the Speech (Michael de Brauw).

14. Forensic Oratory (Craig Cooper).

15. Symbouleutic Oratory (Stephen Usher).

16. Epideictic Oratory (Christopher Carey).

Part IV: Rhetoric: Political, Social and Intellectual Contexts.

17. Rhetoric and Politics in Classical Greece: Rise of the Rhêtores (Ian Worthington).

18. Rhetoric and Persuasion in the Hellenistic World: Speaking up for the Polis (Andrew Erskine).

19. Rhetoric and the Law (James P. Sickinger).

20. Rhetoric and Education (Teresa Morgan).

21. Rhetoric and Religion (Ken Dowden).

22. Rhetoric and Language (A. López Eire).

23. Rhetoric and Logic (James Allen).

24. Rhetoric and Knowledge (Tobias Reinhardt).

25. Rhetoric and Ethics from the Sophists to Aristotle (Jane M. Day).

26. Rhetoric, Manliness and Contest (Joseph Roisman).

27. Rhetoric and Emotion (David Konstan).

Part V: Rhetoric and Literature.

28. Right Rhetoric in Homer (Hanna M. Roisman).

29. Hesiod's Rhetorical Art (Jenny Strauss Clay).

30. Acts of Persuasion in Hellenistic Epic: Honey-Sweet Words in Apollonius (Anatole Mori).

31. Rhetoric and Tragedy: Weapons of Mass Persuasion (Marianne McDonald).

32. Attic Comedy and the Development of Theoretical Rhetoric (Thomas K. Hubbard).

33. Rhetoric and Lyric Poetry (William H. Race).

34. Rhetoric and the Novel: Sex, Lies and Sophistic (Ruth Webb).

35. Rhetoric and Historiography (Matthew Fox and Niall Livingstone).

Bibliography.

Index.