Free Download Stock Characters Speaking: Eight Libanian Declamations Introduced and Translated by Robert Penella
English | January 9, 2023 | ISBN: 0472133330 | True PDF | 168 pages | 1.5 MB
Declamations were composed and orally delivered in the Roman Empire by sophists, or teachers of rhetoric, of whom the Greek-speaking Libanius was one of the most distinguished. Stock Characters Speaking may be thought of as emerging from three developments of recent decades: an explosive interest in late antiquity, a newly sympathetic interest in rhetoric (including ancient declamation), and a desire to bring Libanius’s massive corpus into English and other modern languages.