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AB/Z304 Describing Constantinople

The Art of Description

Rhetoric:

There are several websites:

Silva Rhetoricae

Rhetoric

The Rhetoric Society of America

Education and Rhetoric

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).

Rhetoric and Art

·  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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