Classical Greek Rhetorical Theory and the Disciplining of Discourse (Paperback, Reprint)

1. Introduction: terms of art as a focus in the history of rhetorical theory; 2. Dialegesthai as a term of art: Plato and the disciplining of dialectic; 3. Philosophia as a term of art: recovering Isocrates; 4. Terms of art for political deliberation: demegoria and sumboule; 5. Terms of art and the interpretation of texts: the disciplinary status of the Rhetoric to Alexander; 6. Terms of art and inferring rhetorical theory: when did the parts of a speech become formalized?; 7. Epilogue.