Rhetoric before and beyond the Greeks

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