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How did rhetoric begin and what was it before it was called "rhetoric"? Must art have a name to be considered art? What is the difference between eloquence and rhetoric? And what were the differences among poets, philosophers, sophists, and rhetoricians before Plato emphasized--or perhaps invented--their differences? In Logos without Rhetoric: The Arts of Language before Plato, Robin Reames attempts to intervene in these and other questions by examining the status of rhetorical theory in texts that predate Plato's coining of the term "rhetoric" (c. 380 B.C.E.). From Homer and Hesiod to Parmenides and Heraclitus to Gorgias, Theodorus, and Isocrates, the case studies contained here examine the status of the discipline of rhetoric prior to and therefore in the absence of the influence of Plato and Aristotle's full-fledged development of rhetorical theory in the fourth century B.C.E.The essays in this volume make a case for a porous boundary between theory and practice and promote skepticism about anachronistic distinctions between myth and reason and between philosophy and rhetoric in the historiography of rhetoric's beginning. The result is an enlarged understanding of the rhetorical content of pre-fourth-century Greek texts.

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L'ouvrage que la tradition médiévale attribuait à Aristote et qui nous a été transmis sous le nom de Rhétorique à Alexandre constitue un précieux témoignage sur la plus ancienne tradition oratoire grecque. L'étude du texte permet d'y déceler l'influence de la sophistique, perceptible dans l'amoralisme d'une pratique rhétorique visant à persuader à tout prix. Le traité laisse aussi transparaître la pensée d'Isocrate. Cet aspect a permis aux spécialistes de le situer avant la Rhétorique d'Aristote, vers la fin de la production des orateurs attiques. Par comparaison, la Rhétorique à Alexandre permet de mieux comprendre l'apport d'Aristote à la théorisation de l'éloquence. Là où Aristote décrit une rhétorique idéale fondée sur la rationalisation de la persuasion, la Rhétorique à Alexandre ne comporte pas de considérations théoriques générales. Ce dernier point laisse transparaître le pragmatisme d'un rhéteur professionnel ainsi que le relativisme sceptique des anciens sophistes. Le traité comprend trois parties : la première expose des définitions et des divisions du discours en différents genres et espèces. La seconde partie traite des moyens de persuasion. La dernière partie est quant à elle consacrée à l'organisation du discours.L'édition de la Rhétorique à Alexandre dans Collection des Universités de France comprend le texte grec établi et traduit par Pierre Chiron. Le traité est précédé d'une longue introduction dans laquelle est présenté l'ouvrage. Sont évoqués dans cette présentation les questions de la datation et de l'attribution du texte, ses relations avec l'ancienne Rhétorique et sa tradition manuscrite. L'ouvrage est enfin enrichi de notes ainsi que de deux index, l'un consacré aux personnes et l'autre aux noms.

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Rhetoric thoroughly infused the world and literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of rhetorical theory and practice in that world, from Homer to early Christianity, accessible to students and non-specialists, whether within classics or from other periods and disciplines. Its basic premise is that rhetoric is less a discrete object to be grasped and mastered than a hotly contested set of practices that include disputes over the very definition of rhetoric itself. Standard treatments of ancient oratory tend to take it too much in its own terms and to isolate it unduly from other social and cultural concerns. This volume provides an overview of the shape and scope of the problems while also identifying core themes and propositions: for example, persuasion, virtue, and public life are virtual constants. But they mix and mingle differently, and the contents designated by each of these terms can also shift.

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