Menander

A Rhetor in Context
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-925920-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 394 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 685 g

This book undertakes a fundamental assessment of Menander of Laodicea ('Menander Rhetor'), and of the nature and functions of rhetoric in later antiquity (second to fifth centuries AD). It examines Menander's fragments, collected here for the first time, in detail, showing that he was primarily an expert on judicial and deliberative oratory; a source-critical analysis of the Demosthenes scholia shows that his influential commentary on Demosthenes can be partially reconstructed. It explores the educational practices of the rhetorical schools, and shows that the skills which they taught still had a direct application in the subsequent careers of the rhetoricians' pupils.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heath, Malcolm

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Introduction

- I. Continuity and Innovation

- 2: The Second Century: Transformation

- 3: The Third Century: Fruition

- II. Menander of Laodicea

- 4: Menander: Testimonia and Fragments

- 5: The Demosthenes Scholia

- 6: Menander's Commentary

- III. Classroom and Career

- 7: Teaching

- 8: Technography

- 9: The Relevance of Rhetoric

Über Autor(innen)

Malcolm Heath is Professor of Greek in the Department of Classics, University of Leeds.