Roman and Hellenistic Rhetoric: General Sources

This bibliography is comprehensive in journal literature in the rhetoric of Rome and Hellenism to late antiquity; and selective from other sources. See also many more specific topics.

List of Sources

Athanassi-Fowden, Polymnia. "The Idea of Hellenism." Philosophia 7 (1977): 323-358.

Braet, Antoine. "Hermagoras on Fallacies? The Oldest Extant Rhetorical Contribution to the Study of Fallacies." Philosophy & Rhetoric 40/4 (2007): 416-433..

Brink, C. O. "Quintilian's De causis corruptae eloquentiae and Tacitus' dialogus oratoribus." Classical Quarterly 39 (1989): 472-503.

Clark, Donald Lemen. Rhetoric in Greco-Roman Education. New York: Columbia UP, 1957.

Clarke, M. L. Rhetoric at Rome: A Historical Survey. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1963.

Cobin, Martin T. "An Oral Interpreter's Index to Quintilian." Quarterly Journal of Speech 44 (1958): 61-66.

Damon, Cynthia. "Aesthetic Response and Technical Analysis in the Rhetorical Writings of Dionysius of Halicarnassus." Museum Helveticum 48 (1991): 33-58.

Daube, David. Rabbinic Methods of Interpretation and Hellenistic Rhetoric. Hebrew Union College Annual 22 (1949): 239-264.

Dominik, William J., ed. Roman Eloquence: Rhetoric in Society and Literature. London: Routledge, 1997.

Elsner, JasĖ., and Michel Meyer. Art and Rhetoric in Roman Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Enos, Richard Leo. "The Effects of Imperial Patronage on the Rhetorical Tradition of the Athenian Second Sophistic." Communication Quarterly 25 (1977): 3-10.

—-. Roman Rhetoric: Revolution and the Greek Influence. DeKalb, IL: Waveland P, 1995.

Fortenbaugh, William W., ed. Peripatetic Rhetoric after Aristotle. New Brunswick: Transaction, 1994.

—-. Roman Rhetoric: Revolution and the Greek Influence. DeKalb, IL: Waveland P, 1995.

Fox, Matthew. "Dionysius, Lucian, and the Prejudice against Rhetoric in History." Journal of Roman Studies 91 (2001): 76-93.

Goldberg, Sander M. "Appreciating Aper: The Defence of Modernity in Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus." Classical Quarterly 49 (1999): 224.

Keith, A. M."Slender Verse: Roman Elegy and Ancient Rhetorical Theory." Mnemosyne 52 (1999): 41-42.

Kennedy, George A. The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1972.

—-. Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1980.

—-. "Later Greek Philosophy and Rhetoric." Philosophy & Rhetoric 19 (1986): 121-.

Lamp, Kathleen S. "A City of Brick": Visual Rhetoric in Roman Rhetorical Theory and Practice." Philosophy & Rhetoric 44/2 (2011): 171-193.

Lauer, Ilon. "Ritual and Power in Imperial Roman Rhetoric." Quarterly Journal of Speech 90/4 (2004): 422-445.

Mack, Burton L. "Decoding the Scripture: Philo and the Rules of Rhetoric." Nourished with Peace: Studies in Hellenistic Judaism in Memory of Samuel Sandmel. Ed. Frederick E. Greenspan, Earle Hilgert, and Burton L. Mack. Chico, CA : Scholars Press, 1984. 81-115.

Parks, Edilbert P. The Roman Rhetorical Schools as Preparation for the Courts under the Early Empire. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science 63. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1945.

Rutledge, Stephen H. "Delatores and the Tradition of Violence in Roman Oratory." American Journal of Philology 120 (1999): 555-573.

Sacks, Kenneth. "Rhetoric and Speeches in Hellenistic Historiography." Athaeneum 64 (1986): 383-384.

Schryvers, P. A. "Invention, imagination, et theorie des emotions chez Ciceron et Quintilien." Rhetoric Revalued: Papers from the International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Ed. Brian Vickers. Binghamton: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1982. 47-57.

Wiethoff, William E. "Obscurantism in Ancient Hellenistic Rhetoric." Central States Speech Journal 30 (1979): 211-219.

Wilkerson, K. E. "Carneades at Rome: A Problem of Skeptical Rhetoric." Philosophy & Rhetoric 21/2 (1988): 131-144.

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