Carol S. Lipson is Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Syracuse University. Roberta A. Binkley is Lecturer in English at Arizona State University.

• Introduction Mesopotamian Rhetoric The Birth of RhetoricWilliam W. Hallo The Rhetoric of Origins and the Other: Reading the Ancient Figure of EnheduannaRoberta Binkley Neo-Assyrian Rhetoric: The Example of the Third Campaign of Sennacherib (704–681 B.C.)Paul Y. Hoskisson and Grant M. Boswell Egyptian Rhetoric Ancient Egyptian Rhetoric: It All Comes Down to MaatCarol S. Lipson Law, Rhetoric, and Gender in Ramesside EgyptDeborah Sweeney Chinese Rhetoric The Use of Eloquence: The Confucian PerspectiveGeorge Q. Xu Confucian Silence and Remonstration: A Basis for Deliberation?Arabella Lyon "Nothing Can Be Accomplished If the Speech Does Not Sound Agreeable:" Rhetoric and the Invention of Classical Chinese DiscourseYameng Liu Biblical Rhetoric Pentateuchal Rhetoric and the Voice of the AaronidesDavid Metzger Alternative Greek Rhetoric The Art of Rhetoric at Rhodes: An Eastern Rival to the Athenian Representation of Classical RhetoricRichard Leo Enos Cross-Cultural Rhetorical Studies Story-List-Sanction: A Cross-Cultural Strategy of Ancient PersuasionJames W. Watts Song to Speech: The Origins of Early Epitaphia in Ancient Near Eastern Women's LamentationsC. Jan Swearingen Suggestions for Teaching Ancient Rhetorics List of Contributors Index

Carol S. Lipson is Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Syracuse University. Roberta A. Binkley is Lecturer in English at Arizona State University.

• Introduction Mesopotamian Rhetoric The Birth of RhetoricWilliam W. Hallo The Rhetoric of Origins and the Other: Reading the Ancient Figure of EnheduannaRoberta Binkley Neo-Assyrian Rhetoric: The Example of the Third Campaign of Sennacherib (704–681 B.C.)Paul Y. Hoskisson and Grant M. Boswell Egyptian Rhetoric Ancient Egyptian Rhetoric: It All Comes Down to MaatCarol S. Lipson Law, Rhetoric, and Gender in Ramesside EgyptDeborah Sweeney Chinese Rhetoric The Use of Eloquence: The Confucian PerspectiveGeorge Q. Xu Confucian Silence and Remonstration: A Basis for Deliberation?Arabella Lyon "Nothing Can Be Accomplished If the Speech Does Not Sound Agreeable:" Rhetoric and the Invention of Classical Chinese DiscourseYameng Liu Biblical Rhetoric Pentateuchal Rhetoric and the Voice of the AaronidesDavid Metzger Alternative Greek Rhetoric The Art of Rhetoric at Rhodes: An Eastern Rival to the Athenian Representation of Classical RhetoricRichard Leo Enos Cross-Cultural Rhetorical Studies Story-List-Sanction: A Cross-Cultural Strategy of Ancient PersuasionJames W. Watts Song to Speech: The Origins of Early Epitaphia in Ancient Near Eastern Women's LamentationsC. Jan Swearingen Suggestions for Teaching Ancient Rhetorics List of Contributors Index

Carol S. Lipson is Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Syracuse University. Roberta A. Binkley is Lecturer in English at Arizona State University.

• Introduction Mesopotamian Rhetoric The Birth of RhetoricWilliam W. Hallo The Rhetoric of Origins and the Other: Reading the Ancient Figure of EnheduannaRoberta Binkley Neo-Assyrian Rhetoric: The Example of the Third Campaign of Sennacherib (704–681 B.C.)Paul Y. Hoskisson and Grant M. Boswell Egyptian Rhetoric Ancient Egyptian Rhetoric: It All Comes Down to MaatCarol S. Lipson Law, Rhetoric, and Gender in Ramesside EgyptDeborah Sweeney Chinese Rhetoric The Use of Eloquence: The Confucian PerspectiveGeorge Q. Xu Confucian Silence and Remonstration: A Basis for Deliberation?Arabella Lyon "Nothing Can Be Accomplished If the Speech Does Not Sound Agreeable:" Rhetoric and the Invention of Classical Chinese DiscourseYameng Liu Biblical Rhetoric Pentateuchal Rhetoric and the Voice of the AaronidesDavid Metzger Alternative Greek Rhetoric The Art of Rhetoric at Rhodes: An Eastern Rival to the Athenian Representation of Classical RhetoricRichard Leo Enos Cross-Cultural Rhetorical Studies Story-List-Sanction: A Cross-Cultural Strategy of Ancient PersuasionJames W. Watts Song to Speech: The Origins of Early Epitaphia in Ancient Near Eastern Women's LamentationsC. Jan Swearingen Suggestions for Teaching Ancient Rhetorics List of Contributors Index