ACLS Humanities E-Book
view contents view reviews search within this book encoded text Writings from the Greco-Roman World
HEB book cover
Invention and method: two rhetorical treatises from the Hermogenic corpus
Hermogenes, 2nd cent., Kennedy, George Alexander, 1928-, Rabe, Hugo.
Year: c2005.
Publisher:  Society of Biblical Literature. 
© Society of Biblical Literature
Publisher's Website
view full catalog record
 
For full access to this item, please Login


table of contents
Frontmatter
Index of Short Titles Used in the Notes
Note on the Greek Text
On Invention: Introduction
On Invention: Text and Translation
Book 1. Prooemia
1. On Prooemia from Hypolepsis (Suppositions)
2. On Prooemia from Hypodiaeresis (Subordination)
3. On Prooemia from Periousia (Superfluity)
4. On Prooemia from Kairos (Occasion)
5. On All Prooemia, and Of How Many Parts They Are Composed
Book 2: Diegesis (Narration or Statement of Facts)
1. On Katastasis or Diegesis
2. On Emigrations and Invention in Declamation about Them
3. On Proposals about Laws
4. On War and Peace
5. On Impiety or Homicide
6. On Wrongs to the State
7. On Diegesis
Book 3: Kataskeuē (Confirmation or Proof)
1. Prooemion
2. On Prokataskeuē
3. On Headings
4. On Enstasis and Antiparastasis
5. On Biaion
6. On Epikheiremes
7. On Ergasia of Epikheiremes
8. On Enthymeme
9. <On the Epenthymeme>
10. On Ap' Arkēs Akhri Telous
11. <On What Is Called a Plaston (Fictive) Epikheireme>
12. <On Lysis of From-Beginning-to-End in a Pragmatic Question>
13. On the Arrangement of Epikheiremes
14. On Definition
15. On Diaskeuē
Book 4
[Features of Prose Style]
1. On Figures of Speech
2. On Antitheton
3. On Period
4. On Pneuma
5. On Tasis
6. On Dilemmaton
7. On Parekhesis
8. On Kyklos
9. On Epiphonema
10. On Trope
11. On Solemn Language
12. On Kakozelon
[Declamation Problems]
13. On Figured Problems
14. On Comparative Problems
On Method of Forceful Speaking: Text and Translation
Introduction
1. (On different Possible Meanings of a Word)
2. On All (Unfamiliar) Diction
3. On Mistakes in Word Usage
4. When To Use the Same and When To Use Varied Words
5. On Abundance
6. <On Remedying Presumptuous and Rash Thoughts>
7. On Paraleipsis and Aposiopesis
8. On Circumlocution
9. On Epanalepsis
10. On the Figure of Interrogation
11. On Asyndeton
12. On Preliminary Headings and Recapitulation
13. On Equal Figures
14. On Hyperbaton
15. On Antitheton
16. On Parison and How it Occurs
17. On Pretence (of Extemporaneity)
18. On Amplification: When Can It Be Opportunely Used in Trials?
19. On a Patent Lie: When Ought One to Use It?
20. On Oath: What Is Not Sworn and What Is Sworn
21. On Advocates: To Whom Should They Be Given?
22. On Successfully Accomplishing Opposites by Saying Opposites
23. On Forestalling the Claims of the Opposition
24. On Escaping Notice While Repeating What You or Others Have Said
25. On Praising Oneself without Offense
26. On Tricks Devised by Demosthenes in the Lawcourts
27. On Second Speeches: Why a Case Is Divided an How This Is Done
28. On Narration
29. On Commonplace Thoughts: How We Shall Make Them Our Own When Speaking
30. On Use of Verses in Prose
31. On Powerful Emotions among the Hearers
32. On Admitted Wrongdoing
33. On Speaking in Tragic Style
34. On Speaking in Comic Style
35. On Amphiboly
36. On Elaboration of Public Speaking, Dialogue, Comedy, Tragedy, and Socratic Symposia
37. On Negation
Glossary and Index of Technical Terms
Return to top of page

reviews

No reviews available
Return to top of page

catalog record
Title: Invention and method : two rhetorical treatises from the Hermogenic corpus / the Greek text, edited by Hugo Rabe ; translated with introductions and notes by George A. Kennedy.
Author: Hermogenes, 2nd cent; Kennedy, George Alexander, 1928-; Rabe, Hugo
Extent: 600dpi TIFF G4 page images
E-Distribution Information: University of Michigan Library, Scholarly Publishing Office
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Permission must be received for any subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Please contact info@hebook.org for more information.
Source Version: Invention and method : two rhetorical treatises from the Hermogenic corpus / the Greek text, edited by Hugo Rabe ; translated with introductions and notes by George A. Kennedy
Hermogenes, 2nd cent, Kennedy, George Alexander, 1928-, Rabe, Hugo
Atlanta, Ga.: Society of Biblical Literature, c2005.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.07767
Subject Headings: • Hermogenes, -- 2nd cent. -- Translations into English
• Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800
Notes: • Contains the Greek texts and English translations of two treatises, On invention, and On the method of forcefulness, once attributed to Hermogenes of Tarsus, but now believed to be by unknown authors.
• The Greek texts are from Hermogenes, edited by Hugo Rabe, published in 1913 by B.G. Teubneri.
• Electronic access restricted; authentication may be required
Encoding Description:
 Project Description:
  Header created via MARC-to-XML-to-TEI transformation on 2011-06-23
 Editorial Declaration:
  This electronic text file was created by Optical Character Recognition (OCR). No corrections have been made to the OCR-ed text and no editing has been done to the content of the original document. Encoding has been done through automated and manual processes using the recommendations for Level 2 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines. Digital page images are linked to the text file.
Return to top of page