Greek Drama and the Invention of Rhetoric

by David Sansone

GREEK DRAMA and the Invention of Rhetoric

"An impressively erudite, elegantly crafted argument for reversing what 'everybody knows' about the relation of two literary genres that played before mass audiences in the Athenian city state."

Victor Bers, Yale University

"Sansone's book is first-rate and should be read by any scholar interested in the origins of Greek rhetorical theory or, for that matter, interested...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1118357086
• ISBN13: 9781118357088
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.1"