Logos: Rational Argument in Classical Rhetoric (BICS Supplement 96)

Logos: Rational Argument in Classical Rhetoric (BICS Supplement 96)In the ancient world Classical rhetoric and its practices raised major ethical doubts and questions which have continued to affect even to prejudice our judgment of orators and oratory today. One of the key components of practical oratory was rational argument. The six chapters in this volume examine different aspects of the role of rational argument in Classical oratory and rhetoric and its later tradition. Michael Gagarin discusses the role of

Attempts to expand the role of government to promote equality or security at the expense of liberty have tended to end in failure and oppression

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Collects together the best articles by key historians

utilising nutritional resources that would otherwise be unavailable for other forms of food production

‘The Poet-Hero in the Work of Byron and Shelley’ explores the poetic heroism developed in Byron and Shelley’s poetry and drama

Most ethnographers don’t achieve what Kevin Brown did while conducting their research: in his two years spent at a karaoke bar near Denver

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Drawing on different kinds of printed images and texts

they achieved a measure of independence and individuality that they retained over the centuries