Institute for the Classical Tradition
ANRW II.34.4, pp. 3110-3146
 
Menander Rhetor and the Works Attributed to him
by Fernando Gascó †, Sevilla

Contents

I. Biographical data

3111

II. The treatises on the epideictic genre

3113

1. Authorship

3113

2. Dating

3115

3. The fate of the treatises

3116

III. The bases for a systematization of the epideictic genre

3118

1. Theory and practice in Classical Greece

3118

2. The diffusion of the epideictic genre in Roman times

3119

3. The epideictic genre in the authors of the Second Sophistic

3122

IV. The First Treatise

3126

1. Description

3126

2. Sources

3127

3. General characteristics of the First Treatise

3128

4. Sense and circumstances of the speeches of the First Treatise

3129

V. The Second Treatise

3132

1. Description

3132

2. Sources

3133

3. General characteristics of the Second Treatise

3135

4. Cities and orators in the Second Treatise

3137

VI. Significance and opportuneness of the treatises

3142

VII. Bibliography

3143
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