Book contents
- Persuasion, Rhetoric and Roman Poetry
- Persuasion, Rhetoric and Roman Poetry
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Poetry in Rhetoric
- Chapter 1 Poetry and Rhetoric and Poetry in Rhetoric
- Chapter 2 Poetry and the Poetic in Seneca the Elder’s Controuersiae and Suasoriae
- Chapter 3 The Orator and the Poet in Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria
- Part II Oratory in Epic
- Part III “Rhetoricizing” Poetry
- References
- Index Locorum
- General Index
Chapter 1 - Poetry and Rhetoric and Poetry in Rhetoric
from Part I - Poetry in Rhetoric
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 August 2019
Book contents
- Persuasion, Rhetoric and Roman Poetry
- Persuasion, Rhetoric and Roman Poetry
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Poetry in Rhetoric
- Chapter 1 Poetry and Rhetoric and Poetry in Rhetoric
- Chapter 2 Poetry and the Poetic in Seneca the Elder’s Controuersiae and Suasoriae
- Chapter 3 The Orator and the Poet in Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria
- Part II Oratory in Epic
- Part III “Rhetoricizing” Poetry
- References
- Index Locorum
- General Index
Summary
This chapter traces key moments in the rhetorical tradition in the context of which the problematic relationship of difference and similarity between rhetorical and poetic discourse is evoked and discussed. The competing claims of affinity and difference between poetic and rhetorical discourse in Gorgias’ Helen, Isocrates, Aristotle, Cicero, Kant and others are analyzed as aspects of rhetoric’s self-definition.
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- Persuasion, Rhetoric and Roman Poetry , pp. 9 - 45Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019