) Replacing these early texts by such treatises as the Rhetoric of Aristotle, Cole explains, can only be understood as part of a gradual process, as artistic prose came to be disseminated in written texts and so available in a form that, for the first time, could be analyzed, evaluated, and closely imitated.
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) Replacing these early texts by such treatises as the Rhetoric of Aristotle, Cole explains, can only be understood as part of a gradual process, as artistic prose came to be disseminated in written texts and so available in a form that, for the first time, could be analyzed, evaluated, and closely imitated.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 7x0x9; Purple book with silver lettering in excellent condition. No interior markings. 191 clean pages. Jacket excellent condition. Will ship in a fresh protective mylar cover.
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Near fine in near fine jacket. Purple cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, not illustrated. Book has hint of toning to edges of boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ has mild toning.
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Very Good. 1990. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Octavo. xiv & 191 pp. Mild shelf wear to dust jacket, with some tearing along lower rear corner. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. Very Good. (Subject: Ancient, Greece).
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Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 0801840554. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Erratum page tipped in.; Is it fair to judge early Greek rhetoric by the standards of Plato and Aristotle? This text argues that it is not, and yet this is the path taken by current scholarship on the subject. Arguing against this view, this work sees early Greek rhetoric as largely unsystematic efforts to explore, more by means than by precept, all aspects of discourse. Replacing these early text by such treatises as the "Rhetoric" of Aristotle, Cole explains, can only be understood as part of a gradual process, as artistic prose came to be disseminated in written texts and so available in a form that, for the first time, be analyzed, evaluated and closely imitated.; Ancient Society and History; 191 pages.