A Companion to Roman Rhetoric

Author: Dominik, William & Hall, Jon
Title: A Companion to Roman Rhetoric
Place edition: Oxford/Malden/Carlton
Editor: Wiley-Blackwell
Year edition: 2007
Pages: 528
Keywords: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics
Review:

Rochette Bruno, L’Antiquité Classique, 2009, 78, pp. 323-324 (link) ; Christopher S. van den Berg, BMCR 2008.09.33 (Link) ; Koen De Temmerman, Scholia ns Vol. 19 (2010) 150-153 (Link)

Description: Rhetoric, according to one basic formulation, is the art of persuasive speech (see Quint. Inst. 2.15). In ancient Rome, however, its impact went far beyond the act of public speaking. Rhetoric dominated the education of the elite, played a crucial role in the construction of social and gender identity, and shaped in significant ways the development of Roman literature. As well as exercising a vital influence in political debate and the administration of the law courts, it formed one of the most significant modes of acculturation for the Roman aristocratic teenager. We can only fully understand the cultural and political ambitions of the Roman aristocratic classes if we understand the profound role that rhetoric played in their lives [Authors]. Introduction by Dominik, William & Hall, Jon TOC : 1 William Dominik and Jon Hall, Confronting Roman Rhetoric 3 ; 2 John Dugan, Modern Critical Approaches to Roman Rhetoric 9 ; 3 Sarah Culpepper Stroup, Greek Rhetoric Meets Rome: Expansion, Resistance, and Acculturation 23 ; 4 John Barsby, Native Roman Rhetoric: Plautus and Terence 38 ; 5 Enrica Sciarrino, Roman Oratory Before Cicero: The Elder Cato and Gaius Gracchus 54 ; 6 Anthony Corbeill, Rhetorical Education and Social Reproduction in the Republic and Early Empire 69 ; 7 Joy Connolly, Virile Tongues: Rhetoric and Masculinity 83 ; 8 Michael C. Alexander, Oratory, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Republic 98 ; 9 Steven H. Rutledge, Oratory and Politics in the Empire 109 ; 10 John T. Ramsey, Roman Senatorial Oratory 122 ; 11 Roger Rees, Panegyric 136 ; 12 Valentina Arena, Roman Oratorical Invective 149 ; 13 Robert N. Gaines, Roman Rhetorical Handbooks 163 ; 14 Roderich Kirchner, Elocutio: Latin Prose Style 181 ; 15 Jocelyn Penny Small, Memory and the Roman Orator 195 ; 16 Edwin Rabbie, Wit and Humor in Roman Rhetoric 207 ; 17 Jon Hall, Oratorical Delivery and the Emotions: Theory and Practice 218 ; 18 Catherine Steel Lost Orators of Rome 237 ; 19 James M. May, Cicero as Rhetorician 250 ; 20 Christopher P. Craig, Cicero as Orator 264 ; 21 Charles McNelis, Grammarians and Rhetoricians 285 ; 22 W. Martin Bloomer, Roman Declamation: The Elder Seneca and Quintilian 297 ; 23 Jorge Fernandez Lopez, Quintilian as Rhetorician and Teacher 307 ; 24 William Dominik, Tacitus and Pliny on Oratory 323 ; 25 Graham Anderson, Rhetoric and the Second Sophistic 339 ; 26 John O. Ward, Roman Rhetoric and Its Afterlife 354 ; 27 Matthew Fox, Rhetoric and Literature at Rome 369 ; 28 Emanuele Narducci, Rhetoric and Epic: Vergil’s Aeneid and Lucan’s Bellum Civile 382 ; 29 Dan Hooley, Rhetoric and Satire: Horace, Persius, and Juvenal 396 ; 30 Ulrike Auhagen, Rhetoric and Ovid 413 ; 31 Marcus Wilson, Rhetoric and the Younger Seneca 425 ; 32 Cynthia Damon, Rhetoric and Historiography 439
Author initials: Dominik & Hall 2007