This book sets the practice of declamation in its historical context, describes the conventional, though often bizarre, themes of the speeches and discusses the declaimers' public performances, rhetorical theory and knowledge and use of classical literature and history. This book will be of interest both to students of classical literature and to historians of ancient society and education.
This book sets the practice of declamation in its historical context and discusses the declaimers' public performances and use of classical literature and history.
