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Book description

• Asserts a novel and controversial theory on the origins of rhetoric that differs radically from the standard view
• Argues that it was the theatre of Ancient Greece, first appearing around 500 BC, that prompted
• the development of formalized rhetoric, which evolved soon thereafter
• Provides a cogent reworking of existing evidence
• Reveals the bias and inconsistency of Aristotle
  
  

David Sansone is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Illinois. A former editor of the journal Illinois Classical Studies , he has also served on the editorial boards of Classical Philology and Bryn Mawr Classical Review , and been a member of the Board of Directors of the American Philological Association. He is the author of Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport (1988), Plutarch: Lives of Aristeides and Cato (1989) and Ancient Greek Civilization (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).