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Stock Characters Speaking: Eight Libanian Declamations Introduced and Translated

Stock Characters Speaking: Eight Libanian Declamations Introduced and Translated

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Literary CriticismAncient Rome

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ISBN10: 0472133330
ISBN13: 9780472133338
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: Jan 9 2023
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Declamations were composed and orally delivered in the Roman Empire by sophists, or teachers of rhetoric, of whom the Greek-speaking Libanius was one of the most distinguished. Stock Characters Speaking may be thought of as emerging from three developments of recent decades: an explosive interest in late antiquity, a newly sympathetic interest in rhetoric (including ancient declamation), and a desire to bring Libanius's massive corpus into English and other modern languages.

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