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There are several websites:
The Rhetoric Society of America
Stanley E. Porter, ed. Handbook of classical rhetoric in the Hellenistic Period, 330 B.C.-A.D. 400 (Leiden, 1997), especially chapter by Ruth Webb
Teresa Morgan, Literate education
in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds (Cambridge, 1998)
George A. Kennedy, Classical rhetoric & its Christian & secular
tradition from ancient to modern times 2nd ed., rev. and enl. (Chapel Hill, 1999).
Janet Watson, Speaking volumes: orality and literacy in the Greek and Roman
world (Leiden, 2001).
Raffaella Cribiore., Gymnastics of the mind: Greek education in Hellenistic
and Roman Egypt (Princeton,
2001).
Education in Greek and Roman antiquity edited by Yun Lee Too(Leiden, 2001).
· A. Muntildeoz, "Alcune fonte letterarie per la storia dell'arte bizantina" Nuovo bull. di archeol. crist., 10 (1904), 221-32
· and "Le nella letterature bizantina e i loro rapporti con l'arte figurata" in Recueil Kondakov (Prague, 1926), 139-42
· O. Wulff, "Das Raumerlebnis des Naos im Spiegel der Ekphrasis," BZ 30 (1929-30)
· Henry Maguire, 'Truth and Convention in Byzantine Descriptions of Works of Art', DOP 28 (1974), 113-40
Art and Eloquence in Byzantium (Princeton, 1981)
“The profane aesthetic in Byzantine Art and Literature, DOP 53 (1999)
· D. P. Fowler, 'Narrate and Describe: the problem of Ekphrasis', JRS 81 (1991), 25-35
· L. James and R. Webb, "'To Understand Ultimate Things and Enter Secret Places: Ekphrasis and Art in Byzantium," Art History 14 (1991), 1-17.
· H. Saradi, "The Kallos of the Byzantine City: The Development of a Rhetorical Topos and Historical Reality," Gesta 34 (1995), 37-56.
· L. Pernot, La rhétorique de l'éloge dans le monde gréco-romain (Paris, 1994)
Ruth Webb, ‘The Aesthetics of sacred space: narrative, metaphor and motion in Ekphraseis of church buildings’, Dumbarton Oaks Papers 53 (1999), 59-74
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