Profiles in Roman Rhetoric - An Expanding Hand

This volume shifts perspective to the everyday aspects of ancient rhetoric-its teaching, exercises, and daily life-and concentrates on persons less visible in narratives of rhetoric's history: teachers, slaves and freedmen, speech-performers, political dissidents, mavericks, and dropouts.

List of contents

1. A Brief History of Roman Rhetoric; 2. Plotius Gallus: A Discipline of Thinking; 3. Plotius Gallus: Background and Teaching; 4. Cassius Severus: Life in Fragments; 5. Albucius Silus; 6. Rhetorical Lives: Albucius and Others.

About the author

Bart Huelsenbeck is Assistant Professor of Classics at Ball State University (USA), where he teaches classes on the ancient world and the humanities. He is the author of Figures in the Shadows: The Speech of Two Augustan-Age Declaimers, Arellius Fuscus and Papirius Fabianus, 2018.

Product details

• Authors: Bart Huelsenbeck, Huelsenbeck Bart
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032903637
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3290363-7
• No. of pages: 154
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, Classical texts, Communication Studies, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient, classical and medieval texts