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Rhetorical Exercises from Late Antiquity: A Translation of Choricius of Gaza's Preliminary Tal...
ISBN: 9780521848732 | 0521848733
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 9/28/2009
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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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