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corge A. Kennedy
A HISTORY OF RHEToRIC
Volume I: The Art ofPemuzsion in Greece (1963)
Volume II: The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World
(1972)
Volume III: Greek Rhetoric under Christian Emperors
(1983)
GREEK RHETORIC
UNDER CHRISTIAN
EMPERORS
E A. KENNEDY
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINCETON. NEW JERSEY· 1983
Copyright @ 1983 by Princeton University Press
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Kennedy, e Alexander, 1928-
G... k rhetoric under Christian ernperon.
(A History of rhetoric; v. 3) Includes index.
I. Rhetoric, Ancienl-History. 2. Rhetoric, Medieval-History.
3. Christian lil£ratu .., Early-G... k author.-History and criticism.
I. Title. II. Series: Kennedy, e Alexander, 1928-
History of rhetoric; v. 3.
1983 808'.009 82-51044
ISBN 0-691-03565-2
ISBN 0-691-10145-0 (lim. pbk. ed.)
e A. Kennedy is Paddison Professor of Classi ..
al the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
He i. the author of The Art of P....... ion in G,....
(Princeton, 1963) and Th. Art of Rhetoric in the Ra ....n
World (Princeton, 1972), Ihe filS! two volumes in
A History of Rhetoric.
FOR H AND DOUG
Contents
Bibliographical Abbreviations xi
Foreword xv
CHAPTER ONE
Introduction: Forms and Functions of Secular
Speech in Later Antiquity 3
Judicial Oratory 6
Deli