Progymnasmata: Greek Textbooks of Prose Composition and Rhetoric.
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, America's foremost authority on ancient rhetoric, provides accurate, authoritative translations of four handbooks (by Aelius Theon Aelius Theon was an Alexandrian sophist and author of a collection of preliminary exercises (progymnasmata) for the training of orators. He probably lived and wrote in the mid to late first century A.D. and his treatise is the earliest treatment of these exercises. , Hermogenes, Aphthonius Sophistes, and Nicolaus Sophistes) for the teaching of rhetoric in Progymnasmata: Greek Textbooks of Prose Composition and Rhetoric (Society of Biblical Literature The Society of Biblical Literature is a constituent society of the American Council of Learned Societies with the stated mission to "Foster Biblical Scholarship". Membership is open to the public, including 7200 individuals from over 80 countries. , $29.95). He also translates selections from the commentary on Aphthonius by John of Sardis. Brief introductions to each text and useful notes will aid the reader. A brief index lists some of the rhetorical terms discussed; but there are omissions, e.g., ekphrasis enkomion, sunkrisis, thesis, etc. Many of these texts were not available in any translation before; hence this is a useful text that deserves wide use. EK
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