Speaking for the Polis: Isocrates' Rhetorical Education

1998 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takis Poulakos
Keyword(s):  
2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk M. Schenkeveld

Abstract: On Style, written by a certain Demetrius probably in the first century B.C., is an important witness to the rhetorical education of the third/second centuries B.C. It is a matter of long scholarly debate whether Demetrius intended his treatise to be a handbook of rhetoric or a work of literary criticism. Here it is argued that the public Demetrius writes his book for are pupils who have done the preliminary courses in rhetoric and have leamt to write progymnasmata. They now enter the final course on rhetoric and will compose the more difficult exercises, commonly termed declamationes.


1943 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 433-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
George P. Rice
Keyword(s):  

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