Ancient Rhetoric: an Introduction

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The Art of Persuasion

• Course handbook

• Rhetorical Invention: an introductory paper
• Declamation: an introductory paper
• Hermogenes On Issues: an introduction
• Aphthonius' Preliminary Exercises: a translation of one of the ancient textbooks on the preliminary exercises (progymnasmata) in rhetoric
• Libanius' Preliminary Exercises: a translation of some preliminary exercises (progymnasmata) by the fourth-century rhetor Libanius