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General and Comparative Sources in Greco-Roman
Rhetoric, History, Politics

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Ahl, Frederick.	"The Art of Safe Criticism in Greece and Rome." American Journal of Philology 105 (1984).
Auerbach, Erich.	Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1953.
Bryant, D. C., ed.	Ancient Greek and Roman Rhetoricians: A Biographical Dictionary. Columbia, MO: Artcraft P, 1968.
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.
Cole, Thomas.	The Origins of Rhetoric in Ancient Greece. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1991.
Eden, Kathy.	Poetic and Legal Fiction in the Aristotelian Tradition. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1986.
Enos, Richard Leo.	Roman Rhetoric: Revolution and the Greek Influence. DeKalb, IL: Waveland P, 1995.
Euben, J. Peter.	"The Battle of Salamis and the Origins of Political Theory." Political Theory 14 (1986): 359-390.
Farrar, Cynthia.	The Origins of Democratic Thinking: The Invention of Politics in Classical Athens. New York: Cambridge UP, 1998.
Field, Guy Cromwell.	Plato and His Contemporaries: A Study in Fourth-Century Life and Thought. London: Methuen, 1953.
Finley, John H.	Four Stages of Greek Thought. London: Oxford UP, 1966.
Guthrie, William Keith Chambers.	A History of Greek Philosophy. Vol. III: The Fifth Century Enlightenment. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1969.
Harding, P.	"Rhetoric and Politics in Fourth-Century Athens." Phoenix 41 (1987): 25-39.
Hutchinson, D. S.	"Doctrines of the Mean and the Debate Concerning Skills in Fourth-Century Medicine, Rhetoric, and Ethics." Apeiron 21 (1988): 17-52.
Joyner, G.	"The Agora in Athens: Literary Sources." Hellenika: Essays on Greek History and Politics. North Ryde: Macquarie UP, 1982. 97-120.
Jordan, Mark D.	"Ancient Philosophic Protreptic and the Problem of Persuasive Genres." Rhetorica 4 (1986): 309-333.
Kane, Francis I.	"Peitho and the Polis." Philosophy & Rhetoric 19 (1986): 99-124.
Kastely, James L.	Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition: From Plato to Post-Modernism. New Haven: Yale UP, 1997.
Kennedy, George.	The Art of Persuasion in Greece. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1963.
---.	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.
---.	A New History of Classical Rhetoric. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1994.
Loraux, Nicole.	The Invention of Athens: The Funeral Oration in the Classical City. Trans. Alan Sheridan. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1986.
Murphy, James J., ed.	A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric. Davis, CA: Hermagoras P, 1983.
Nussbaum, Martha.	The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986.
de Romilly, Jacqueline.	"History and Philosophy." Diogenes (1974): 50-68.
---.	Magic and Rhetoric in Ancient Greece. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1975.
Ronald, Kate.	"A Reexamination of Personal and Public Discourse in Classical Rhetoric." Rhetoric Review 9 (1990): 36-48.
Sinclair, Thomas Alan.	A History of Greek Political Thought. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1951.
Solmsen, Friedrich.	Intellectual Experiments of the Greek Enlightenment. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1975.
Swearingen, Jan.	Rhetoric and Irony: Western Literacy and Western Lies. New York: Oxford UP, 1991.
Thomas, Rosalind.	Oral Tradition and Written Record in Classical Athens. Studies in Oral and Literate Culture 18. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989.
Tuplin, C.	"Imperial Tyranny: Some Reflections on a Classical Greek Political Metaphor." History of Political Thought 6 (1985): 348-375.
Vickers, Brian.	In Defense of Rhetoric. Oxford: Clarendon, 1988.
Wardy, Robert.	The Birth of Rhetoric: Gorgias, Plato, and their Successors. New York: Routledge, 1996.
Yunis, Harvey.	Taming Democracy: Models of Political Rhetoric in Classical Athens. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1996.