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BICKER, E., and H. HERTER, (eds.), Rheinisches Museum für Philologie. Neue folge. Hundertundzweiten Bandes. Zweites Heft. Sauerländers Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1959. pp.97-192. Sewn. Pages bit yellowed. A.o.: H. DREXLER: Iustum bellum (pp.97-141); W. KRAUS: Zum neuen Menander (pp.146-157); W. SCHMID: Menanders Dyskolos und die Timonlegende (pp.157-183); W.G. ARNOTT: Porson's Law and Middle Comedy (pp.190-192). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 13.50 (Antiquarian)

Euripides, Rhesos. Oxford University Press, 1992. 112p. Paperback. Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations. € 38.03 (New) (MD)

RHESOS. Tragödie eines unbekannten Dichters. Griechisch und deutsch von D. Ebener. Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 1966. 132p. Cloth wrps. Wrps a bit worn.From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 21.50 (Antiquarian)

EURIPIDES, Rhesos. Translated by R.E. Braun. Oxford University Press, New York,1978. XII,97p. Cloth wrps. Wrps a little bit worn. Series: The Greek Tragedy in New Translations.From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott € 14.50 (Antiquarian)

KERN, P. H., Rhetoric and Galatians. Cambridge University Press, 2008. 324p. Paperback. Series: Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, 101. This monograph challenges the accepted notion that Galatians is either a sample of classical rhetoric or should be interpreted in light of Graeco-Roman rhetorical handbooks. It demonstrates that the handbooks of Aristotle, Cicero, et al. discuss a form of oratory which was limited with respect to subject, venue and style of communication, and that Galatians falls outside such boundaries. The inapplicability of ancient canons of rhetoric is reinforced by a detailed comparison of Galatians with the handbooks, a survey of patristic attitudes towards Paul's communicative technique, and interaction with twentieth-century discussions of the nature of New Testament Greek. Dr Kern concludes that rhetorical handbooks were never a tool of literary criticism and that they cannot assist the search for a distinctly Pauline rhetoric. Thus this study has implications not only for Galatians, but also for other New Testament epistles. (Publisher's information). € 44.90 (New) (MD)

KERN, P. H., Rhetoric and Galatians. Cambridge University Press, 1998. 322p. Hardback. Series: Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, 101. This monograph challenges the accepted notion that Galatians is either a sample of classical rhetoric or should be interpreted in light of Graeco-Roman rhetorical handbooks. It demonstrates that the handbooks of Aristotle, Cicero, et al. discuss a form of oratory which was limited with respect to subject, venue and style of communication, and that Galatians falls outside such boundaries. The inapplicability of ancient canons of rhetoric is reinforced by a detailed comparison of Galatians with the handbooks, a survey of patristic attitudes towards Paul's communicative technique, and interaction with twentieth-century discussions of the nature of New Testament Greek. Dr Kern concludes that rhetorical handbooks were never a tool of literary criticism and that they cannot assist the search for a distinctly Pauline rhetoric. Thus this study has implications not only for Galatians, but also for other New Testament epistles. (Publisher's information). € 110.44 (New) (MD)

OBERHELMAN, S. M., Rhetoric and Homiletics in Fourth-Century Christian Literature. Prose Rhythm, Oratorical Style, and Preaching in the Works Of Ambrose, Jerome, and Augustine. Oxford University Press, 1991. 208p. Paperback. Series: Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies. € 40.75 (New) (MD)

SWEARINGEN, C. J., Rhetoric and Irony. Western Literacy and Western Lies. Oxford University Press, 1991. 344p. Hardback. € 200.42 (New) (MD)

WALKER, J., Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity. Oxford University Press, 2000. 416p. Hardback. Jeffrey Walker outlines his project in the opening pages of his preface with a clarity and explicitness typical of the exemplary consideration with which readers are treated throughout this extraordinary ambitious complex and wide-ranging book. Malcolm Heath, University of Leeds - Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review 06/04/2004 (Publisher's information). € 217.40 (New) (MD)

WALKER, J., Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity. Oxford University Press, 2000. 416p. Hardback. Small, light stain to fore edge. Nice copy. 'I believe Walker's book will interest teachers of classics, even if they shy away from 'rhetoric' per se. They might find themselves forced to rethink what they mean by that term. To my mind, the historical narrative of the changing meaning of rhetoric is the most impressive and useful part of this book (others may find more for themselves in the readings of archaic lyric). I can, for instance, immediately see that Walker's thesis will affect the way I discuss ancient educational practice and such phenomena as declamation in my own courses on Greek and Roman literature. Where specifically Walker struck me as most compelling was in his contention that there is an important relationship between rhetoric and democracy or justice, but that it is not the received one. The standard histories of rhetoric would have it that rhetoric is a democratic phenomenon, or that it at least requires a political system open to contestation in the courts and assemblies. Thus under Hellenistic monarchies or the Roman empire rhetoric goes into decline. Walker's book, by contrast, approaches democracy as a 'rhetorical' phenomenon. For him lyric rhetoric (and here epideictic prose is analogous to lyric) in its 'maximal' form serves as a condition for or an embodiment of democracy, through modeling contestation, persuasion, and judgment, even where prevailing political conditions, as in archaic Greece or imperial Rome, cannot even imagine true democracy. In summary, with this book, which is thoroughly researched and relatively unmarred with production errors, Walker argues for an expanded, non-traditional conception of what 'rhetoric' meant and can still mean, and he marshals the ample support of ancient authorities from Hesiod to late antiquity and beyond to make his case.' (BRIAN W. BREED in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2001.03.16). € 87.50 (New)