The Cambridge companion to ancient rhetoric / edited by Erik Gunderson.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Fighting words : status, stature, and verbal contest in archaic poetry / Nancy Worman -- The philosophy of rhetoric and the rhetoric of philosophy / Robert Wardy -- Codifications of rhetoric / Malcolm Heath -- Divisions of speech / Catherine Steel -- Rhetoric, aesthetics, and the voice / James Porter -- The rhetoric of rhetorical theory / Erik Gunderson -- The politics of rhetorical education / Joy Connolly -- Types of oratory / Jon Hesk -- Rhetoric of the Athenian citizen / Victoria Wohl -- Rhetoric and the Roman Republic / John Dugan -- Staging rhetoric in Athens / David Rosenbloom -- The drama of rhetoric at Rome / William Batstone -- Rhetoric and the Second Sophistic / Simon Goldhill -- Rhetorical practice and performance in early Christianity / Todd Penner and Caroline Vander Stichele -- Rediscoveries of classical rhetoric / Peter Mack -- The runaround : a volume retrospect on ancient rhetorics / John Henderson.