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The chreia and ancient rhetoric : commentaries on Aphthonius's Progymnasmata / translated with an introduction and notes by Ronald F. Hock.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Original language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Series: Writings from the Greco-Roman World ; 31Publisher: Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, [2012]Description: xii, 345 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781589836440 (paper binding)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 888.002 Chr 2012 23
LOC classification:
  • PA3469.C48 C49 2013
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"This is the third and final volume of the Chreia in Ancient Education and Literature Project sponsored by the Institute of Antiquity and Christianity at the Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. The first volume, The Chreia in Ancient Rhetoric: The Progymnasmata, appeared in 1986 and introduced and translated the chreia chapters from all the extant Progymnasmata as well as some related texts. The second volume, The Chreia and Ancient Rhetoric: Classroom Exercises, was published in 2002; it introduced and translated the various classroom exercises that used the chreia during the primary and secondary stages of the curriculum but especially during the third, or rhetorical, stage where elaborating a chreia became the principal exercise for students to undertake"--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-340) and index.

Text in English and Greek.

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