Rhetoric, Ancient
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Demosthenes' "On the Crown"
Φαῖδρος
The classical theory of composition
The rhetoric of identity in Isocrates
Philo and Paul among the Sophists
Treatise on rhetoric
Boethius's De topicis differentiis
On the sublime
The craft of poetic speech in ancient Greece
Rhetoric reclaimed
Aristotle
Xenophon's Cyropaedia
The rhetoric of imitation
Homer's Traditional Art
Speaking for the polis
Reading Aristotle's Ethics
Συμπόσιον
Henry Fielding's novels and the classical tradition
Bibliotheca
Longinus On the Sublime; the Greek text edited after the Paris manuscript, with introduction, translation, facsimiles and appendices, by W. Rhys Roberts
The Architecture of Hesiodic poetry
Plato's dream of sophistry
Wordsworth's classical undersong
The birth of literary fiction in ancient Greece
Making a new man
The diatribe and Paul's letter to the Romans
Poetics
Dialogus de oratoribus
An introduction to classical rhetoric
Rhetoric
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