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Rhetorical Exercises from Late Antiquity: A Translation of Choricius of Gaza's Preliminary Tal...

ISBN: 9780521848732 | 0521848733
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 9/28/2009

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SummaryTable of Contents
The first translation, produced by a team of eight scholars, of the Declamations and Preliminary Talks of the sixth-century sophist Choricius of Gaza. This volume also contains a detailed study of Choricius' reception in Byzantium and Renaissance Italy.
Introduction
Choricius, Preliminary Talks
Choricius, Declamations
Declamation 1 [X]: 'Polydamas'
Declamation 2 [XII]: 'Priam'
Declamation 3 [XIV]: 'The Lydians'
Declamation 4 [XVII]: 'Miltiades'Â
Declamation 5 [XX]: 'The Young War-Hero'
Declamation 6 [XXIII]: 'The Miserly Old Man'
Declamation 7 [XXVI... MORE
Declamation 8 [XXIX]: 'A Spartan Citizen'
Declamation 9 [XXXV]: 'The Child-Killer'
Declamation 10 [XXXVIII]: 'Patroclus'
Declamation 11 [XL]: 'The War-Hero'
Declamation 12 [XLII]: 'An Orator'
Epilogue. The fortune and reception of Choricius and of his works
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