Greek Rhetoric under Christian Emperors. - KENNEDY, G.A.,
KORTE INHOUD
?The third volume in Professor Kennedy?s continuing opus, ?A History of Rhetoric?, embraces a greater time span than either of its predecessors. On closer inspection however, it will be sent that of the book?s three hundred and twenty three pages two hundred and sixty-three are concerned with Late Antiquity, while t the Early, Middle and Late Byzantine Periods share between themselves the remaining sixty pages. Such a distribution of interest is entirely explicable in terms of the author?s own contention (p.50) that ?the subject matter of the rhetoric of later antiquity is the public exposition of the three greatest causes of the age: the preservation, transmission and survival of Hellenism; the reinforcement of the unity of the state around the person of the emperor and his loyal subordinated; the cause of Christianity, both against pagans and within Christian sects in their strife to establish orthodoxy. (?) K. Is always helpful in the way in which he chooses to place his ample store of knowledge at the rea...
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1983Uitgever: Princeton University Press301 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0691034435ISBN-13: 9780691034430Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Princeton, 1983. XVII,333p. Original green cloth bound. Spine silver titled. Free endpaper torn out. Library withdrawn, stamp on half title. Small library stamp on p.325. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: KENNEDY, G.A.,] [Uitgever: Princeton University Press] [Jaar: 1983] [Titel: Greek Rhetoric under Christian Emperors.]
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Princeton, 1994. XII,301p. Original black cloth bound. Spine silver titled. (Rare thus). [Antiquarian] [Auteur: KENNEDY, G.A.,] [Uitgever: Princeton University Press] [Jaar: 1994] [Titel: A New History of Classical Rhetoric.]
