The chreia and ancient rhetoric [electronic resource] : commentaries on Aphthonius's Progymnasmata / translated with an introduction and notes by Ronald F. Hock.

The chreia and ancient rhetoric [electronic resource] : commentaries on Aphthonius's Progymnasmata / translated with an introduction and notes by Ronald F. Hock.

9781589836440 (paper binding)
9781589836457 electronic book

Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, c2012.

English

Text in English and Greek.

xii, 345 p.

PA3469.C48 C49 2013eb

888/.002

"This is the third and final volume of the Chreia in Ancient Education and Literature Project sponsored by the Institute of Antiquity and Christianity at the Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. The first volume, The Chreia in Ancient Rhetoric: The Progymnasmata, appeared in 1986 and introduced and translated the chreia chapters from all the extant Progymnasmata as well as some related texts. The second volume, The Chreia and Ancient Rhetoric: Classroom Exercises, was published in 2002, and introduced and translated the various classroom exercises that used the chreia during the primary and secondary stages of the curriculum but especially during the third, or rhetorical, stage where elaborating a chreia became the principal exercise for students to undertake"--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Writings from the Greco-Roman world ; no. 31.

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