Rhetorical Bodies: Toward a Material Rhetoric

Here, translated into modern English, are the works of literature, history, science, oratory, and philosophy that constitute the mainstream of Roman thought and continue to influence world civilizations. This volume includes:
. Complete translations of Plautus The Haunted House, Terence s Woman from Andros, Seneca s Medea, and the Deeds of the Deified Augustus.
. Selections from Vergil s Georgics and Aeneid, the poems of Catullus, Horace s Odes, Ovid s Metamorphoses and Fasti, the Satyricon of Petronius, and the Sixth Satire of Juvenal.
. Selections from Lucretius On the Nature of Things, Cicero s speeches and philosophical works, and Quintilian s The Training of the Orator.
. Selections from histories by Sallust, Livy s History of Rome, Tacitus Annals and Germania, and letters of Pliny the Younger.

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Author: Jack Selzer
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 07/15/1959
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.03w x 0.91d
ISBN: 9780299164744

About the Author
Jack Selzer is professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Kenneth Burke in Greenwich Village, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press. Sharon Crowley is professor of English at Arizona State University. She is the author of Composition in the University.