Rhetorical Arguments

Essays in Honour of Lucia Calboli Montefusco. Edited by Maria Silvana Celentano, Pierre Chiron and Peter Mack.

27 contributions (Preface and ten essays in English; nine essays in Italian, seven in French and one in Spanish) address rhetorical argumentation in different ways. Following a flexibly chronological plan, these studies discuss successively Greek theory and practice (Thucydides, Lysias, Isaeus, Isocrates, Aristotle, Chrysippus), and Greco-Roman rhetoric between the Republic and late antiquity (Cicero, Quintilian, Chariton of Aphrodisias, John Chrysostom, Choricius of Gaza, Cassiodorus, Martianus Capella). The volume ends with analyses on medieval Latin epistolography (13th century) and dialectic in the renaissance (Lorenzo Valla and Rudolph Agricola). These studies devoted to the dialectical aspect of rhetoric are enhanced by studies of the link between rhetorical argumentation and historical circumstances, the parts of the oration, other forms of textual production (the novel, the letter), theatre, torture and the law. 402 Seiten mit 6 Tab., broschiert (Europaea Memoria. Studien und Texte zur Geschichte der europäischen Ideen. Reihe I: Studien; Band 111/Olms Verlag 2015)