Rhetoric and Power: The Drama of Classical Greece

An insightful approach to classical Greek texts and practices as the wellspring for understanding rhetoric's relationship to authority

In Rhetoric and Power, Nathan Crick dramatizes the history of rhetoric by explaining its origin and development in classical Greece beginning the oral displays of Homeric eloquence in a time of kings, following its ascent to power during the age of Pericles and the Sophists, and ending with its transformation into a rational discipline with Aristotle in a tim...