Progymnasmata: Greek Textbooks of Prose Composition and Rhetoric (Writings from the Greco-Roman World) (English and Greek Edition)

For students of classical, medieval, and early modern literature and of the history of education, Kennedy (classics emeritus, U. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) presents and comments on four Greek treatises for teaching prose composition and elementary rhetoric. They were written during the time of the Roman Empire and studied throughout the Byzanti

• Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam: On Copia of Words and Ideas
• On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse, 2nd Edition
• Cicero: Rhetorica ad Herennium (Loeb Classical Library No. 403) (English and Latin Edition)
• How to Win an Argument: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Persuasion (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
• The Orator's Education, Volume I: Books 1-2 (Loeb Classical Library)
• The Orator's Education, Volume II: Books 3-5 (Loeb Classical Library)
• Quintilian: The Orator's Education, V, Books 11-12 (Loeb Classical Library No. 494) (Volume V)
• Quintilian: The Orator's Education, III, Books 6-8 (Loeb Classical Library No. 126) (Volume III)
• Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace (5th Edition)
• Quintilian: The Orator's Education, IV, Books 9-10 (Loeb Classical Library No. 127) (Volume IV)