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9 produkter

1. 

   Greek Oratory

   Tradition and Originality

   Av Stephen Usher

   Inbunden, 1999

   4602 kr

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   Speakers address audiences in the earliest Greek literature, but oratory became a distinct genre in the late fifth century and reached its maturity in the fourth. This book traces the development of its techniques by examining the contribution made by each orator. Dr Usher makes the speeches come …

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   Greek Oratory

   Tradition and Originality

   Av Stephen Usher

   Häftad, 2002

   1999 kr

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   Speakers address audiences in the earliest Greek literature, but oratory became a distinct genre in the late fifth century and reached its maturity in the fourth. This book traces the development of its techniques by examining the contribution made by each orator. Dr Usher makes the speeches come …

3. 

   Greek Orators I: Antiphon, Lysias

   Av M. Edwards, Stephen Usher

   Häftad, 1985

   635 kr

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   Rational persuasion and appeal to an audience's emotions are elements of most literature, but they are found in their purest form in oratory. The speeches written by the Greek Orators for delivery in law-courts, deliberative councils and assemblies enjoyed an honoured literary status, and rightly …

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   Greek Orators V: Demosthenes - On the Crown

   Av Usher, Stephen Usher

   Häftad, 1993

   635 kr

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   Universally recognised as the greatest speech by the finest of the Attic Orators, On the Crown (De Corona) is Demosthenes’ vindication of his lifelong devotion to Athenian primacy among the Greek states and opposition to the advance of Philip II of Macedon. He won the case, and his opponent …

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   Cicero's Speeches

   Av Stephen Usher

   Häftad, 2008

   723 kr

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   Cicero made a multiple bid for literary acclaim with his oratory and his writings on rhetoric, together with his works on politics, religion and philosophy. He was both orator and critic and his efficiency in preserving written versions of his speeches have left us with an abundance of material for …

6. 

   Historians of Greece and Rome

   Av Stephen Usher

   Häftad, 1997

   498 kr

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   Our understanding of Greek and Roman civilization is in considerable measure a product of the intelligence and literary skills of its historians. Writing at different times and from different vantage points, the surviving historians illustrate the influences to which the genre was subjected in the …

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   Xenophon: The Persian Expedition

   Anabasis

   Av Thucydides, J. Antrich m. fl.

   Häftad, 1991

   399 kr

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   This book offers some 800-850 lines of the 'Anabasis' in Greek with English summaries of the intervening passages to give an idea of the whole of Xenophon's exciting adventure. Notes at the foot of each page assist with content and language, and a consolidated vocabulary which assumes only basic …

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   Herodotus

   "Persian Wars" - A Companion to the Penguin Translation of "Histories", V-IX

   Av Herodotus, Stephen Usher

   Häftad, 1991

   334 kr

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9. 

   Social Threefolding

   Rebalancing Culture, Politics & Economics – An Introductory Reader

   Av RUDOLF STEINER, STEPHEN USHER

   Häftad, 2018

   173 kr

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   In the aftermath of the devastating First World War, Rudolf Steiner gained a reputation as a leading social thinker. One mainstream reviewer of his book Towards Social Renewal referred to it as `... perhaps the most widely read of all books on politics appearing since the war'. Steiner's proposals …