volume 9

ADVICE AND ITS RHETORIC IN GREECE AND ROME

edited by Diana Spencer and Elena Theodorakopoulos, marzo 2007, pp. 215, € 45,00

Contents: List of illustrations - Notes on Contributors - Preface - Introduction (Diana Spencer and Elena Theodorakopoulos) - 1. 'Good men who have skill in speaking': performing advice in Rome, Diana Spencer and Elena Theodorakopoulos - 2. On the receiving end: the hidden protagonist of Plato's Laches, Andrew Barker - 3. Advice and Advisers in Xenophon's Anabasis, Tim Rood - 4. Consul and consilium: suppressing the Catilinarian conspiracy, Catherine Steel - 5. Telling it like it is: Seneca, Alexander and the dynamics of epistolary advice, Diana Spencer - 6. Advice from on high - Pliny and Trajan, Andy Fear - 7. Dio Chrysostom and the development of On Kingship literature, Harry Sidebottom - 8. 'That's not funny': advice in skoptic epigram, Gideon Nisbet - 9. Afterword: giving advice in Greek letters,  Desmond Costa - Bibliography - Index.

ISBN 978-88-7949-439-7