Classical Philology: Rhetoric

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On this page, you can find the best resources for the study of ancient rhetoric available to UB library users.

Primary Texts | Histories and Handbooks of Rhetoric | Kennedy, History of Rhetoric

Primary Texts

Corpus Rhetoricum by Michel Patillon
ISBN: 9782251005430

Publication Date: 2008

This item is not currently available through UB Libraries, but interested UB users are encouraged to order it through Delivery+.
Rhetores graeci, 9 vols. by Christian Walz
Publication Date: 1968

Lockwood: PA3484 .W3 1968 | 5th floor stacks
Online: 1836 edition available at HathiTrust (UB only): Vol. 1 | Vol. 2 | Vol. 3 | Vol. 4 | Vol. 5 | Vol. 6 | Vol. 7, Pt. 1 | Vol. 7, Pt. 2 | Vol. 8 | Vol. 9; 1836 edition also available at the Internet Archive: Vol. 1 | Vol. 2 | Vol. 3 | Vol. 4 | Vol. 5 | Vol. 6 | Vol. 7, Pt. 1 | Vol. 7, Pt. 2 | Vol. 8 | Vol. 9.
Rhetores graeci, 3 vols. by Leonhard von Spengel
Publication Date: 1966

Lockwood: PA3484 .S7 1966 | 5th floor stacks
Goetz: PA3484.S7 1966 v.1
Goetz has: vol. 1 only.
Online: 1885 edition available at HathiTrust (UB only): Vol. 1 | Vol. 2 | Vol. 3; various editions and volumes available at the Internet Archive.
Rhetores Latini minores by Karl Halm
Publication Date: 1964

Goetz: PA6138 .R5 1964
Annex: PA6138 .R5 1964
Online: 1863 edition available at HathiTrust (UB only) and at the Internet Archive.

Kennedy, The History of Rhetoric

A New History of Classical Rhetoric by George A. Kennedy
ISBN: 0691034435

Publication Date: 1994

Lockwood: PA3038 .K46 1994 | 5th floor stacks
The Art of Persuasion in Greece. The History of Rhetoric, vol. 1 by George Kennedy
Publication Date: 1963

Lockwood: PA3265 .K4 | 5th floor stacks
Goetz: PA3265.K4 1964
The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World. The History of Rhetoric, vol. 2 by George A. Kennedy
ISBN: 0691035059

Publication Date: 1972

Lockwood: PA6085 .K4 | 5th floor stacks
Goetz: PA6085 .K4 1972
Greek Rhetoric under the Christian Emperors. The History of Rhetoric, vol. 3 by George A. Kennedy
ISBN: 0691035652

Publication Date: 1983

Lockwood: PA3265 .K43 1983 | 5th floor stacks
Goetz: PA3265.K35

Histories and Handbooks of Rhetoric

A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric by James J. Murphy, Richard A. Katula, & Michael Hoppmann
ISBN: 9780415532402

Publication Date: 2013

Copy on order for UB Libraries.
Ancient Rhetoric and Oratory by Thomas Habinek
ISBN: 9780470775325

Publication Date: 2008

Goetz: PA181 .H33 2005
Glossary of Greek Rhetorical Terms by R. Dean Anderson
ISBN: 9789042908468

Publication Date: 2000

Lockwood: PA455.R47 A53 2000 | 5th floor stacks
Greek Oratory: Tradition and Originality by Stephen Usher
ISBN: 0198150741

Publication Date: 1999

Lockwood: PA3263 .U84 1999 | 5th floor stacks
Handbook of Literary Rhetoric: A foundation for literary study by Heinrich Lausberg
ISBN: 9004107053

Publication Date: 1998

Lockwood: PA181 .L313 1998 | 5th floor stacks
Goetz: PA181 .L313 1998
Handbook of Classical Rhetoric in the Hellenistic Period (330 B.C.-A.D. 400) by Stanley E. Porter
ISBN: 9004099654

Publication Date: 1997

Lockwood: PA3083 .H36 1997 | 5th floor stacks
The Birth of Rhetoric: Gorgias, Plato, and Their Successors by Robert Wardy
ISBN: 0415146429

Publication Date: 1996

Goetz: PA4279 .G7W37 1996
Persuasion: Greek Rhetoric in Action by Ian Worthington
ISBN: 0415081386

Publication Date: 1994

Lockwood: PA3074 .P47 1994 | 5th floor stacks
Historisches Wörterbuch der Rhetorik, 12 vols. by Gert Ueding, Gregor Kalivoda, et al
ISBN: 9783484681019

Publication Date: 1992

Lockwood: PF3410 .H5 1992 | 5th floor stacks
Antike Rhetorik : Technik und Methode by Josef Martin
ISBN: 340604770X

Publication Date: 1974

Annex: PA25 .H25 Abt.2 T.3
Die attische Beredsamkeit, 3 vols., 3rd ed. by Friedrich Blass
Publication Date: 1962

Goetz: PA3263.B6 v.1-3
Annex: PA3263 .B6
Online: 1887 edition available at HathiTrust (UB only): Vol. 1 | Vol. 2 | Vol. 3, Pts. 1 & 2; various editions and volumes available at the Internet Archive.