172 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
172 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This volume shifts perspective to the everyday aspects of ancient rhetoric—its teaching, exercises, and daily life—and concentrates on persons less visible in narratives of rhetoric’s history: teachers, slaves and freedmen, speech performers, political dissidents, mavericks, and dropouts.
Standard historical accounts typically identify rhetoric with events and figures of great moment, great... Read more
1. A Brief History of Roman Rhetoric; 2. Plotius Gallus: A Discipline of Thinking; 3. Plotius Gallus: Background and Teaching; 4. Cassius Severus: Life in Fragments; 5. Albucius Silus; 6. Rhetorical Lives: Albucius and Others.
Biography
Bart Huelsenbeck is Assistant Professor of Classics at Ball State University (USA), where he teaches classes on the ancient world and the humanities. He is the author of Figures in the Shadows: The Speech of Two Augustan-Age Declaimers, Arellius Fuscus and Papirius Fabianus, 2018.
