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Invention and method: two rhetorical treatises from the Hermogenic corpus

2nd cent Hermogenes, George Alexander Kennedy and Hugo Rabe c2005 © Society of Biblical Literature
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  • Writings from the Greco-Roman World
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  • 9781589831216 (paper)
Subject
  • European: Ancient to 400 C.E.
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Index of Short Titles Used in the Notes (page ix)
  • Note on the Greek Text (page xii)
  • On Invention: Introduction (page xiii)
  • On Invention: Text and Translation (page 3)
  • Book 1. Prooemia (page 3)
    • 1. On Prooemia from Hypolepsis (Suppositions) (page 5)
    • 2. On Prooemia from Hypodiaeresis (Subordination) (page 17)
    • 3. On Prooemia from Periousia (Superfluity) (page 21)
    • 4. On Prooemia from Kairos (Occasion) (page 23)
    • 5. On All Prooemia, and Of How Many Parts They Are Composed (page 25)
  • Book 2: Diegesis (Narration or Statement of Facts) (page 31)
    • 1. On Katastasis or Diegesis (page 35)
    • 2. On Emigrations and Invention in Declamation about Them (page 35)
    • 3. On Proposals about Laws (page 39)
    • 4. On War and Peace (page 43)
    • 5. On Impiety or Homicide (page 47)
    • 6. On Wrongs to the State (page 49)
    • 7. On Diegesis (page 51)
  • Book 3: Kataskeuē (Confirmation or Proof) (page 61)
    • 1. Prooemion (page 63)
    • 2. On Prokataskeuē (page 63)
    • 3. On Headings (page 73)
    • 4. On Enstasis and Antiparastasis (page 79)
    • 5. On Biaion (page 83)
    • 6. On Epikheiremes (page 85)
    • 7. On Ergasia of Epikheiremes (page 99)
    • 8. On Enthymeme (page 101)
    • 9. <On the Epenthymeme> (page 103)
    • 10. On Ap' Arkēs Akhri Telous (page 107)
    • 11. <On What Is Called a Plaston (Fictive) Epikheireme> (page 115)
    • 12. <On Lysis of From-Beginning-to-End in a Pragmatic Question> (page 119)
    • 13. On the Arrangement of Epikheiremes (page 121)
    • 14. On Definition (page 123)
    • 15. On Diaskeuē (page 127)
  • Book 4 (page 137)
  • [Features of Prose Style]
    • 1. On Figures of Speech (page 139)
    • 2. On Antitheton (page 141)
    • 3. On Period (page 147)
    • 4. On Pneuma (page 155)
    • 5. On Tasis (page 169)
    • 6. On Dilemmaton (page 169)
    • 7. On Parekhesis (page 173)
    • 8. On Kyklos (page 173)
    • 9. On Epiphonema (page 175)
    • 10. On Trope (page 179)
    • 11. On Solemn Language (page 181)
    • 12. On Kakozelon (page 183)
  • [Declamation Problems]
    • 13. On Figured Problems (page 187)
    • 14. On Comparative Problems (page 197)
  • On Method of Forceful Speaking: Text and Translation (page 201)
    • Introduction (page 201)
    • 1. (On different Possible Meanings of a Word) (page 205)
    • 2. On All (Unfamiliar) Diction (page 205)
    • 3. On Mistakes in Word Usage (page 207)
    • 4. When To Use the Same and When To Use Varied Words (page 207)
    • 5. On Abundance (page 211)
    • 6. <On Remedying Presumptuous and Rash Thoughts> (page 213)
    • 7. On Paraleipsis and Aposiopesis (page 213)
    • 8. On Circumlocution (page 215)
    • 9. On Epanalepsis (page 219)
    • 10. On the Figure of Interrogation (page 221)
    • 11. On Asyndeton (page 223)
    • 12. On Preliminary Headings and Recapitulation (page 225)
    • 13. On Equal Figures (page 225)
    • 14. On Hyperbaton (page 227)
    • 15. On Antitheton (page 231)
    • 16. On Parison and How it Occurs (page 231)
    • 17. On Pretence (of Extemporaneity) (page 233)
    • 18. On Amplification: When Can It Be Opportunely Used in Trials? (page 235)
    • 19. On a Patent Lie: When Ought One to Use It? (page 237)
    • 20. On Oath: What Is Not Sworn and What Is Sworn (page 237)
    • 21. On Advocates: To Whom Should They Be Given? (page 239)
    • 22. On Successfully Accomplishing Opposites by Saying Opposites (page 239)
    • 23. On Forestalling the Claims of the Opposition (page 241)
    • 24. On Escaping Notice While Repeating What You or Others Have Said (page 243)
    • 25. On Praising Oneself without Offense (page 245)
    • 26. On Tricks Devised by Demosthenes in the Lawcourts (page 247)
    • 27. On Second Speeches: Why a Case Is Divided an How This Is Done (page 249)
    • 28. On Narration (page 251)
    • 29. On Commonplace Thoughts: How We Shall Make Them Our Own When Speaking (page 251)
    • 30. On Use of Verses in Prose (page 253)
    • 31. On Powerful Emotions among the Hearers (page 255)
    • 32. On Admitted Wrongdoing (page 257)
    • 33. On Speaking in Tragic Style (page 257)
    • 34. On Speaking in Comic Style (page 259)
    • 35. On Amphiboly (page 261)
    • 36. On Elaboration of Public Speaking, Dialogue, Comedy, Tragedy, and Socratic Symposia (page 263)
    • 37. On Negation (page 265)
  • Glossary and Index of Technical Terms (page 269)
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