How (not) to learn rhetoric: Lucian’s <i>Rhetorum Praeceptor</i> as rebuttal of a school exercise

A chreia attested in later sources shows enough points of similitarity with Lucian’s ironic tract on rhetorical education to suggest that he is assuming his readers’ knowledge of a particular school exercise.<br />

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Main Author: Craig A. Gibson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Duke University 2012-02-01
Series:Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
Online Access:http://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/13521
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