This is the only modern English translation with commentary in print of this important treatise by Hermogenes of Tarsus (AD C.160-225). The book makes sophisticated theories of argument developed by Greek teachers of rhetoric in the second century AD accessible both to specialist and non-specialist readers.

Hermogenes On Issues: Strategies of Argument in Later Greek Rhetoric

Literature & Fiction

Heath, Malcolm

History & Criticism

Clarendon Press

Ancient schools of rhetoric taught students how to devise arguments in legal and political disputes, and how to express them. Many scholars believe that these techniques increasingly lost their practical relevance under the Roman Empire. This detailed reassessment of the history and social significance of rhetoric in late antiquity shows how it was taught, and why the skills it promoted were still believed to have a direct application in the subsequent careers of the rhetoricians' pupils.

Menander: A Rhetor in Context

Oxford University Press

Ancient Philosophical Poetics (Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy)

What is poetry? Why do human beings produce and consume it? What effects does it have on them? Can it give them insight into truth, or is it dangerously misleading? This book is a wide-ranging study of the very varied answers which ancient philosophers gave to such questions. An extended discussion of Plato's Republic shows how the two discussions of poetry are integrated with each other and with the dialogue's central themes. Aristotle's Poetics is read in the context of his understanding of poetry as a natural human behaviour and an intrinsically valuable component of a good human life. Two chapters trace the development of the later Platonist tradition from Plutarch to Plotinus, Longinus and Porphyry, exploring its intellectual debts to Epicurean, allegorical and Stoic approaches to poetry. It will be essential reading for classicists as well as ancient philosophers and modern philosophers of art and aesthetics.

Cambridge University Press

What is poetry? Why do human beings produce and consume it? What effects does it have on them? Can it give them insight into truth, or is it dangerously misleading? This book is a wide-ranging study of the very varied answers which ancient philosophers gave to such questions. An extended discussion of Plato's Republic shows how the two discussions of poetry are integrated with each other and with the dialogue's central themes. Aristotle's Poetics is read in the context of his understanding of poetry as a natural human behaviour and an intrinsically valuable component of a good human life. Two chapters trace the development of the later Platonist tradition from Plutarch to Plotinus, Longinus and Porphyry, exploring its intellectual debts to Epicurean, allegorical and Stoic approaches to poetry. It will be essential reading for classicists as well as ancient philosophers and modern philosophers of art and aesthetics.

The Poetics of Greek Tragedy

Gerald Duckworth & Co.

How should I interpret a classical text? However I interpret it, someone else will so do differently, and even the nature of the interpreter's task is a matter of dispute; consensus is not a realistic prospect. Malcolm Heath sees the inevitability of such disagreements, not as a problem to be deplored, but as a constructive force, at once an essential part of the process of enquiry and a reflection of the endless diversity of the questions that interest the readers of classical texts. Accordingly he argues for an approach to interpretation that is theoretically reflective and committed to an open-ended, yet rigorously critical, pluralism. Against that background he examines a range of issues in literary theory, including the nature and significance of authorial intention, the relevance of context and reception, and the possibility and value of historically oriented interpretation.

Interpreting Classical Texts (Classical Essays)

Bristol Classical Press

Roman Poetry and Prose; Greek Rhetoric and Poetry: Roman poetry and prose; Greek rhetoric and poetry (Papers of the Leeds International Latin Seminar)

Cairns, Francis

Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd

The latest volume in this series of papers from Britain's  premier classics conference, contains 22 papers on Roman poetry  and prose, Greek poetry, etymology and historiography. Contents  include: Money-loving Romans (Andrew Erskine); Virgil: a  paradoxical poet? (P.R.Hardie); Herodotus warns the Athenians  (John Moles); The magic of names: some etymologies in the  Cyranides (David Bain).

Papers of the Leeds International Latin Seminar, Ninth Volume 1996 (Arca, 34)

PLLS 10 consists, as did earlier volumes in the series, in part of revised and usually expanded versions of papers presented at seminar meetings and in part of further papers contributed at the invitation of the editors.

Papers of the Leeds International Latin Seminar 10, 1998: Greek Poetry, Drama, Prose: Roman Poetry (Arca, 38)

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Hermogenes On Issues: Strategies of Argument in Later Greek Rhetoric

Menander: A Rhetor in Context

Ancient Philosophical Poetics (Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy)

Ancient Philosophical Poetics (Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy)

The Poetics of Greek Tragedy

Interpreting Classical Texts (Classical Essays)

Roman Poetry and Prose; Greek Rhetoric and Poetry: Roman poetry and prose; Greek rhetoric and poetry (Papers of the Leeds International Latin Seminar)

Papers of the Leeds International Latin Seminar, Ninth Volume 1996 (Arca, 34)

Papers of the Leeds International Latin Seminar 10, 1998: Greek Poetry, Drama, Prose: Roman Poetry (Arca, 38)

Ancient Philosophical Poetics (Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy)