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. |
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Bryant, D. C., ed. |
Ancient Greek and Roman Rhetoricians: A Biographical Dictionary. Columbia, MO: Artcraft P, 1968. |
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Clark, Donald Lemen. |
Rhetoric in Greco-Roman Education. New York: Columbia UP, 1957. |
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Clarke, M. L. |
Rhetoric at Rome: A Historical Survey. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1963. |
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Cole, Thomas. |
The Origins of Rhetoric in Ancient Greece. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1991. |
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Eden, Kathy. |
Poetic and Legal Fiction in the Aristotelian Tradition. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1986. |
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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. |
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Kennedy, George. |
The Art of Persuasion in Greece. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1963. |
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The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1972. |
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Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1980. |
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A New History of Classical Rhetoric. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1994. |
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Loraux, Nicole. |
The Invention of Athens: The Funeral Oration in the Classical City. Trans. Alan Sheridan. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1986. |
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Murphy, James J., ed. |
A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric. Davis, CA: Hermagoras P, 1983. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Swearingen, Jan. |
Rhetoric and Irony: Western Literacy and Western Lies. New York: Oxford UP, 1991. |
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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. |
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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. |