Explores how rhetorical techniques helped to produce innovations in art of the Hellenistic courts at Pergamon and Alexandria.

Detailed new account of the historical emergence and conceptual reach of the sublime both before and after Longinus.

"This volume, examining the reception of ancient rhetoric, aims to demonstrate that the past is always part of the present: in the ways in which decisions about

This book examines a widespread, and often misunderstood, doctrine within the medieval Aristotelian tradition, namely the inclusion of Aristotle's Rhetoric and

Witherington provides a much-needed introduction to the ancient art of persuasion and its use within the various New Testament documents. More than just an expl