Selected Bibliography on
Classical Rhetoric(s)



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Anderson, Graham. Sage, Saint, and Sophist: Holy Men and Their Associates in the Early Roman Empire. London: Routledge, 1994.
---. The Second Sophistic: A Cultural Phenomenon in the Roman Empire. New York: Routledge, 1993.
Atwill, Janet. Rhetoric Reclaimed: Aristotle and the Liberal Arts Tradition. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1998.

Barrett, Harold. The Sophists: Rhetoric, Democracy, and Plato’s Idea of Sophistry. Novato, CA: Chandler and Sharp, 1987.
Benoit, William. “Isocrates and Plato on Rhetoric and Rhetorical Education.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 21 (1991): 60-71.
Bizzell, Patricia. “Opportunities for Feminist Research in the History of Rhetoric.” Rhetoric Review 11 (1992): 50-58.
---. “Feminist Methods of Research in the History of Rhetoric: What Difference Do They Make?” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 30 (2000): 5-18.
Bizzell, Patricia and Bruce Herzberg, eds. The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin’s, 1990.

Carlson, A. Cheree. “Aspasia of Miletus: How One Woman Disappeared from the History of Rhetoric.” Women’s Studies in Communication 17 (1994).
Cole, Thomas. The Origins of Rhetoric in Ancient Greece. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1991.
Connors, Robert J., Lisa Ede and Andrea Lunsford, ed. Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1984.
Corbett, Edward P. J. Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student 3rd ed. New York: Oxford, 1990.
Corbett, Edward P. J., James L. Golden and Goodwin F. Berquist. Essays on the Rhetoric of the Western World. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 1990.
Crowley, Sharon. Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students. New York: Macmillan, 1994.

DeRomilly, Jacqueline. Magic and Rhetoric in Ancient Greece. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1975.
---. The Great Sophists in Periclean Athens. New York: Clarendon Press, 1991.
Dobson, John F. The Greek Orators. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1971.

Eden, Kathy. Hermeneutics and the Rhetorical Tradition: Chapters in the Ancient Legacy & Its Humanist Reception. New Haven: Yale UP, 1997.
Enos, Richard Leo. Greek Rhetoric Before Aristotle. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland, 1993.
---. The Literate Mode of Cicero’s Legal Rhetoric. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1988.
---, ed. Oral and Written Communication: Historical Approaches. Newbury Park: Sage, 1990.
---. “Recovering the Lost Art of Research the History of Rhetoric.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 29 (1999): 7-20.
---. Roman Rhetoric: Revolution and the Greek Influence. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland P, 1995.
Enos, Richard Leo, and Lois Peters Agnew, eds. Landmark Essays on Aristotelian Rhetoric. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum/Hermagoras P, 1998.
Enos, Richard Leo, Mark James, Harold Barrett, and Lois Agnew, eds. “‘The Classical Tradition: Rhetoric and Oratory’: A Public Address Given by Harry Caplan.” [With Foreword by Edward P. J. Corbett] Rhetoric Society Quarterly 27 (1997): 7-38.
Enos, Richard Leo and Margaret Kantz. “ A Selected Bibliography on Corax and Tisias.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 13 (1983): 71-74.
Enos, Richard Leo and Janice Lauer. “The Meaning of ‘Heuristic’ in Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Its Implications for Contemporary Rhetorical Theory.” In A Rhetoric of Doing: Essays Honoring James L. Kinneavy, ed. Stephen Witte, Neil Nakadate, and Roger D. Cherry. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1992.

Fuhrmann, Manfred. Cicero and the Roman Republic. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1992.

Garver, Eugene. Aristotle’s Rhetoric: An Art of Character. Chicago, IL: U of Chicago P, 1994.
---. “The Modesty of Aristotle’s Rhetoric.” Inventing a Discipline: Rhetoric Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Young. Ed. Maureen Daly Goggin. Urbana: NCTE, 2000. 109-22.
Gleason, Maud. Making Men: Sophists and Self-presentation in Ancient Rome. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1994.
Glenn, Cheryl. Rhetoric Retold: Regendering the Tradition from Antiquity Through the Renaissance. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1995.
---. “Remapping Rhetorical Territory.” Rhetoric Review 13 (1995): 287-303.
---. “sex, lies, and manuscript: Refiguring Aspasia in the History of Rhetoric.” College Composition and Communication 45 (1994): 180-99.
Goggin, Maureen Daly, and Elenore Long. “A Tincture of Philosophy, A Tincture of Hope: The Portrayal of Isocrates in Plato's Phaedrus.” Rhetoric Review 11 (1993): 301-24.
Graff, Richard. “Reading and the ‘Written Style’ in Aristotle’s Rhetoric.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 31 (2001): 19-44.
Grimaldi, William M. A., S. J. Aristotle, Rhetoric I: A Commentary. New York: Fordham UP, 1980.
Gross, Alan G., and Arthur E. Walzer, eds. Rereading Aristotle's Rhetoric. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2000.

Haskins, Ekaterina. “Mimesis Between Poetics and Rhetoric: Performance Culture and Civic Education in Plato, Isocrates and Aristotle.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 30 (2000): 7-34.
Hauser, Gerard A. “Aristotle on Epideictic: The Formation of Public Morality.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 29 (1999): 5-24.
Havelock, Eric A. The Literate Revolution in Greece and Its Cultural Consequences. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1982.
---. Preface to Plato. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1963.
Horner, Winifred Bryan and Michael Leff, ed. Rhetoric and Pedagogy: Its History, Philosophy and Practice: Essays in Honor of James J. Murphy. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1995.
Howland, Jacob. The Paradox of Political Philosophy: Socrates’ Philosophic Trail. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998.

Jacob, Bernard E. “What Socrates Said--And Why Gorgias and Polus Did Not Respond: A Reading of Socrates’ Definition of Rhetoric in Gorgias 461-66.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 29 (1999): 77-98.
Jarratt, Susan C. F. Rereading the Sophists: Classical Rhetoric Refigured. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1991.
Jebb, R. C. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos. New York: Russell, 1962.
Johnston, Christopher Lyle, ed. Issues in Greek Rhetoric and Oratory. Albany: SUNY P, 1996.
Jost, Walter, and Wendy Olmsted, eds. Rhetorical Invention and Religious Inquiry: New Perspectives. New Haven: Yale UP, 2000.

Kahn, Charles H. Plato and the Socratic Dialogue: The Philosophical Use of a Literary Form. New York: Cambridge UP, 1998.
Kastely, James L. “The Clouds: Aristophanic Comedy and Democratic Education.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 27 (1997): 25-46.
---. Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition: From Plato to Postmodernism. New Haven: Yale UP, 1997.
Kennedy, George A. The Art of Persuasion in Greece. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1963.
---. The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World, 300 B.C.-A.D. 300. Princeton, NJ: Princeton, UP, 1972.
---. Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times. Chapel Hill: The U of North Carolina P, 1980.
---. Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition From Ancient to Modern Times. 2nd, rev. ed. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P,1999.
---. Greek Rhetoric under Christian Emperors. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1983.
---. A New History of Classical Rhetoric. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1994.
Kerferd, G. B. The Sophistic Movement. New York: Cambridge UP, 1981.

Lentz, Tony M. Orality and Literacy in Hellenic Greece. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1989.
Lu, Xing. Rhetoric in Ancient China, Fifth to Third Century, B.C.E.: A Comparison with Classical Greek Rhetoric. Columbia, S.C.: U of South Carolina P, 1998.
Lunsford, Andrea, ed. Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the Rhetorical Tradition. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1995.

Marback, Richard. Plato’s Dream of Sophistry. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1999.
Marrou, H. I. A History of Education in Antiquity. Trans. G. Lamb. New York: The New American Library, 1964.
Matson, Patricia, Philip Rollinson and Marion Sousa, eds. Readings from Classical Rhetoric. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1990.
May, James. Trials of Character: The Eloquence of Ciceronian Ethos. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1988.
McComiskey, Bruce. “Gorgias and the Art of Rhetoric: Toward a Holistic Reading of Extant Gorgianic Fragments.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 27 (1997): 5-24.
McPheran, Mark. The Religion of Socrates. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State UP, 1996.
Morgan, Teresa. Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds. Cambridge, U.K: Cambridge UP, 1998.
Murphy, James J., ed. A Short History of Writing Instruction from Ancient Greece to Twentieth-Century America. Davis, CA: Hermagoras P, 1990.
---. Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: A History of Rhetorical Theory from Saint Augustine to the Renaissance. Berkeley, CA: U of California P, 1981.
---. “The Metarhetoric of Aristotle, with Some Examples from His On Memory and Recollection. Rhetoric Review 21 (2002) 213-28.
Murphy, James J., and Richard A. Katula. A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric, 2nd ed. Davis, CA: Hermagoras P, 1995.

Neinkamp, Jean. Plato on Rhetoric and Language. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum/Hermagoras P, 1999.
Nightingale, Andrea Wilson. Genres in Dialogue: Plato and the Construction of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995.

Ober, Josiah. Political Dissent in Democratic Athens: Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1998.
Ochs, Donovan J. Consolatory Rhetoric: Grief, Symbol, and Ritual in the Greco-Roman Era. Columbia, SC: U of South Carolina P, 1993.
Ong, Walter J., S. J. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. New York: Methuen, 1982.

Papillon, Terry L. “Mixed Unities in The Antidosis of Isocrates.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 27 (1997): 47-62.

Ramsey, Eric. “A Hybrid Techné of the Soul?: Thoughts on the Relation Between Philosophy and Rhetoric in Gorgias and Phaedrus.” Rhetoric Review 17 (1999): 247-63.
Reid, Robert S. “‘Neither Oratory Nor Dialogue’: Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the Genre of Plato’s Apology.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 27 (1997): 63-90.

Schiappa, Edward, ed. Landmark Essays on Classical Greek Rhetoric. Davis, CA: Hermagoras P, 1994.
---. Protagoras and Logos: A Study in Greek Philosophy and Rhetoric. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1991.
---. The Beginnings of Rhetorical Theory in Classical Greece. New Haven: Yale UP, 1999.
Schildgen, Brenda Deen, ed. The Rhetoric Canon. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1997.
Schnakenberg, Karen Rossi. “Classical Rhetoric in American Writing Textbooks, 1950-1965.” Inventing a Discipline: Rhetoric Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Young. Ed. Maureen Daly Goggin. Urbana: NCTE, 2000. 146-73.
Sipiora, Phillip, and James S. Baumlin, eds. Rhetoric and Kairos : Essays in History, Theory, and Praxis. Albany: SUNY P, 2002.

Timmerman, David. “The Aristotelian Fix: Perspectives on Political Deliberation.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 32 (2002): 77-98
Too, Yun Lee. The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates: Text, Power, Pedagogy. New York: Cambridge UP, 1995.

Vickers, Brian. In Defense of Rhetoric. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1988.

Waggenspack, Beth. “Women’s Role in Rhetorical Traditions.” The Rhetoric of Western Thought. Eds. Golden et al. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 1998.
Walker, Jeffrey. Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity. New York: Oxford UP, 2000.
Walzer, Arthur. "Aristotle’s Rhetoric, Dialogism and Contemporary Research in Composition.” Rhetoric Review 16 (1997): 45-57.
Welch, Kathleen E. The Contemporary Reception of Classical Rhetoric: Appropriations of Ancient Discourse. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1990.
---. Electric Rhetoric: Classical Rhetoric, Oralism and a New Literacy. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 1999.
Wertheimer, Molly Meijer, ed. Listening to Their Voices: The Rhetorical Activities of Historical Women. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1997.
White, David A. Rhetoric and Reality in Plato’s “Phaedrus.” Albany, NY: State U of New York P, 1993.
Wickkiser, Bronwen L. “Speech in Context: Plato’s Menexenus and the Ritual of Athenian Public Burial.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 29 (1999): 65-74.
Wisse, Jakob. Ethos and Pathos: From Aristotle to Cicero. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 1989.
Worthington, Ian, ed. Persuasion: Greek Rhetoric in Action. London: Routledge, 1994.

Yarbrough, Stephen R. “The Love of Invention: Augustine, Davidson, and the Discourse of Unifying Belief.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 30 (2000): 29-46.

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