Ian Worthington is Frederick A. Middlebush Professor of History at the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA. His previous publications include Demosthenes: Statesman and Orator (2000), Alexander the Great: A Reader (2003), and a biography, Alexander the Great: Man and God (2004).

This complete guide to ancient Greek rhetoric is exceptional both in its chronological range and the breadth of topics it covers.
* Traces the rise of rhetoric and its uses from Homer to Byzantium
* Covers wider-ranging topics such as rhetoric's relationship to knowledge, ethics, religion, law, and emotion
* Incorporates new material giving us fresh insights into how the Greeks saw and used rhetoric
* Discusses the idea of rhetoric and examines the status of rhetoric studies, present and future
* All quotations from ancient sources are translated into English

Notes on Contributors
Preface: For Readers -- and Reviewers
Notes
Abbreviations
Speeches of the Attic Orators
Part I: Setting the Scene
Part II: Rhetoric: A Brief History
Part III: Rhetoric and Speeches
Part IV: Rhetoric: Political, Social and Intellectual Contexts
Part V: Rhetoric and Literature
Bibliography
Index