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BOTANIZING RULERS AND THEIR HERBAL SUBJECTS: PLANTS AND POLITICAL POWER IN GREEK AND ROMAN LITERATURE

PHOENIX Workshops, 2022
:This paper argues that plants are sometimes made to play the role of “biographical objects” in Greek and Roman texts. The stories linking plants and three rulers (Attalus iii, Mithradates vi, and Juba ii) suggest that the rhetoric of power associated ...
L. Totelin
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Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity

, 2019
This monograph focuses on passages of archaic and classical Greek poetry where certain human individuals in certain moments are presented as approximating to the gods. The approximation pursued is different from any form of immortality, be it apotheosis,
F. Meister
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Greek Rhetoric

2010
Rhetoric was recognized as a discipline for the first time in Ancient Greece, probably by Plato, who was generally hostile to its practice in the form of oratory, especially forensic oratory. Plato’s hostility notwithstanding, his pupil Aristotle promoted the study of rhetoric, which soon came to dominate Greek and Roman education.
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The Enthymeme: Syllogism, Reasoning, and Narrative in Ancient Greek Rhetoric, by James Fredal

Journal for the History of Rhetoric, 2023
Martin Camper, Amy K. Anderson
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The Development of Greek Rhetoric

2015
Abstract This chapter presumes that the history of Greek rhetoric is coterminous with the development of a specialized vocabulary deployed to describe and organize activities we recognize now as rhetorical theory, pedagogy, and practice.
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Greek and Latin Rhetorical Culture

2017
This chapter discusses the role of rhetorical culture in the Second Sophistic. In the Greco-Roman world of the imperial period, rhetoric was an educational system, a social practice, and a mental tool. Public speaking was omnipresent. The figure of the sophist combined literary activity and political influence: rhetoric was their secret link.
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Doctors in Ancient Greek and Roman Rhetorical Education

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 2012
This article collects and examines all references to doctors in rhetorical exercises used in ancient Greek and Roman schools in the Roman Empire. While doctors are sometimes portrayed positively as philanthropic, expert practitioners of their divinely sanctioned art, they are more often depicted as facing charges for poisoning their patients.
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Rhetoric, the Dorian Hexapolis, and Knidos: A Study of the Reception of Ancient Rhetoric in the Greek East and Its Impact on the Second Sophistic

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Ancient Rhetoric, 2021

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Questions in Greek Rhetorical Theory and Demosthenes' Philippics

Rhetorica, 2013
Nessuna classificazione, sia antica sia moderna, porta alla luce in modo adeguato la varietà di domande che Demostene utilizza nelle sue Filippiche. Lo scopo di questo lavoro è di esaminare l'analisi dell'utilizzazione delle domande nell'eloquenza greca e di elaborare una nuova classificazione che si basa sul lavoro dei retori antichi e studiosi ...
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READING REPLICATIONS: ROMAN RHETORIC AND GREEK QUOTATIONS

Art History, 2006
Adolf Furtwangler's concept of Roman copies and lost Greek originals has been largely dismantled in recent scholarship. Nevertheless, Romans created a sophisticated visual vocabulary which included direct quotations of Greek models, as well as allusions to styles associated with particular periods or individual Greek artists.The art‐historical ...
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