Ancient rhetoric and poetic

About this eBook

Author

Baldwin, Charles Sears, 1867-1935

Title

Ancient rhetoric and poetic : Interpreted from representative works

Original Publication

Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1924, pubdate 1959.

Credits

Tor Martin Kristiansen, Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PA: Language and Literatures: Classical Languages and Literature

Subject

Classical literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 76707

Release Date

August 19, 2025

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.ANCIENT RHETORIC AND POETIC
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.CHAPTER I RHETORIC AND POETIC — FOOT-NOTES:
5. 5.CHAPTER II THE RHETORIC OF ARISTOTLE — Book I — Book II — Book III — FOOT-NOTES:
6. 6.CHAPTER III RHETORIC IN THE DE ORATORE AND ORATOR OF CICERO [1] — De Oratore — Orator — FOOT-NOTES:
7. 7.CHAPTER IV THE TEACHING OF RHETORIC — I. QUINTILIAN ON THE TEACHING OF RHETORIC ( DE INSTITUTIONE ORATORIA ) [2] — A. Tabular View [3] — B. The Terms — C. Typical Doctrine — D. Scope and Plan — II. DECLAMATIO IN SENECA, [27] TACITUS, AND PLINY — A. Declamatio — B. Character and Scope of Seneca’s Collection — C. Seneca’s Classification and Treatment — FOOT-NOTES:
8. 8.CHAPTER V THE LITERARY CRITICISM OF RHETORIC — A. Dionysius of Halicarnassus on Sentences — FOOT-NOTES: — B. The Great Unknown on Imaginative Diction — FOOT-NOTES:
9. 9.CHAPTER VI THE POETIC OF ARISTOTLE [1] — TABULAR VIEW OF THE POETIC OF ARISTOTLE [10] — I — II — FOOT-NOTES:
10. 10.CHAPTER VII POETIC IN ANCIENT DRAMA AND NARRATIVE — I. DRAMA — A. Greek Tragedy [1] — B. Senecan Tragedy [18] — C. Latin Comedy — FOOT-NOTES: — II. NARRATIVE — A. The ÆNEID — B. The Narrative Poetry of Ovid — C. The Metamorphoses of Apuleius — FOOT-NOTES:
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII RHETORIC IN ANCIENT CRITICISM OF POETIC — A. The Pervasiveness of Rhetoric — B. Criticism from Grammarians — C. Criticism from Professional Public Speakers — (1). Dio of Prusa — D. Plutarch’s How Youth Should Read Poetry [26] — E. Horace’s Ars Poetica — FOOT-NOTES:
12. 12.TABULAR INDEX OF LATIN AND GREEK RHETORICAL TERMS
13. 13.GENERAL INDEX

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