Ancient rhetoric and poetic

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III. RHETORIC IN THE _DE ORATORE_ AND _ORATOR_ OF CICERO 37 _De Oratore_ 40 _Orator_ 56

IV. THE TEACHING OF RHETORIC 62 Quintilian on the Teaching of Rhetoric (_De institutione oratoria_) 63 _Declamatio_ in Seneca, Tacitus, and Pliny 87

V. THE LITERARY CRITICISM OF RHETORIC 102 Dionysius of Halicarnassus on Sentences 103 The Great Unknown on Imaginative Diction (“Longinus on the Sublime”) 122

VI. THE _POETIC_ OF ARISTOTLE 132 Tabular View 135 The Idea of Dramatic Movement 158

VII. POETIC IN ANCIENT DRAMA AND NARRATIVE 167 Drama 168 Greek Tragedy 168 Senecan Tragedy 186 Latin Comedy 188 Narrative 192 The _Æneid_ 192 The Narrative Poetry of Ovid 216 The _Metamorphoses_ of Apuleius 221

VIII. RHETORIC IN ANCIENT CRITICISM OF POETIC 224 The Pervasiveness of Rhetoric 224 Criticism from Grammarians 226 Criticism from Professional Public Speakers 229 Dio of Prusa 231 Plutarch’s _How Youth Should Read Poetry_ 239 Horace’s _Ars Poetica_ 242

TABULAR INDEX OF LATIN AND GREEK RHETORICAL TERMS 249

GENERAL INDEX 253