Rhetorical Exercises of Nikephoros Basilakes - Progymnasmata From Twelfth-Century Byzantium

Progymnasmata, exercises in the study of declamation, were the cornerstone of elite education from Hellenistic through Byzantine times. The Rhetorical Exercises of Nikephoros Basilakes, translated here into English for the first time, illuminate teaching and literary culture in one of the most important epochs of the Byzantine Empire.

About the author

Jeffrey Beneker is Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.Craig A. Gibson is Professor of Classics and Collegiate Scholar at the University of Iowa.

Product details

• Authors: Nikephoros Basilakes
• Assisted by: Jeffrey Beneker (Editor), Craig A Gibson (Editor), Jeffrey Beneker (Translation), Craig A Gibson (Translation), Beneker Jeffrey (Editor and translation), Gibson Craig A. (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9780674660243
• ISBN: 978-0-674-66024-3
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Europe, European History, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, CE period up to c 1500, Medieval History, Archaeology, History and Archaeology, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc