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Progymnasmata

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Progymnasmata

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Several of these works have never before been translated into English and are made accessible to the general reader for the first time. George A. Kennedy, one of the world's leading scholars of ancient rhetoric, provides an English translation of four Greek treatises written during the time of the Roman empire but studied throughout the Roman and Byzantine periods--works attributed to Theon, Hermogenes, Aphthonius, and Nicolaus. Also included are translations of the fragments of Sopatros' treatise as well as John of Sardis' commentary on these exercises. The progymnasmata were fundamental to the teaching of prose composition and elementary rhetoric in European schools from the Hellenistic period to early modern times. The habits of thinking and writing learned in schools molded not only the secular literature of the Greeks and Romans, but also the writings of the early Christians through the patristic period.
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Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2003-02-28
Publication Date:
2003-02-28
Publisher:
Society of Biblical Literature
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
158983061X
ISBN13:
9781589830615
Weight:
421 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
16 cm

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