Auxesis: A concept of rhetorical amplification
This essay examines and analyzes the classical concept of auxesis, a device used for amplification in Greek and Roman rhetoric, and redefines it through association with contemporary principles and practicess
El ejemplo histórico en los discursos de Elio Aristides: el episodio de los heraldos de Darío en las Guerras Médicas ( Panatenaico 97-100 Lenz-Behr)
In this paper, we study the use of the historical example in the Elio Aristides’oratory from a rhetoric perspective. Studies in this regard have been focused so far on historical matters and Quellenforschung . On the contrary, we start determining the persuasive speech components in general and the example (παράδeιγμα) in particular, through the Rhetoric. Then, we analyze how certain topics and historical motifs (constituted as παραδeίγματα, that is, models and precedents of the past with rhetoric value) integrate both the argumentative and the stylistic facets of the discourse. The historical example discussed here is the one that arose in the Panathenaic out of the episodes in Athens in 491 BC concerning the heralds sent to Greece by Darius at the beginning of the First Persian War.
Communist History: An Annual Bibliography (2005)
The subject of this bibliography is the scholarly literature of communist history. For the USA coverage is extensive. For the rest of the Anglophone world coverage is selective, while coverage for the rest of the world is more selective still. Coverage of the former and presently communist countries is largely limited to works dealing with the Communist parties of those countries. Anti-communism is covered selectively, with somewhat more emphasis on its interaction with communism than its nature as a movement/ideology per se. Coverage of related topics, i.e. the labor movement, Marxism, other strains of radicalism, etc., is highly selective and limited to items directly relevant to communism. For coverage of current reportage (newspapers, news weeklies, journals of opinion, Internet/WWW discussion lists, etc.) see the Newsletter of the Historians of American Communism and the Historians of American Communism Discussion List (h-hoac@h-net.msu.edu). The Bibliography is organized into seven sections, listed below. Sections 1–5 are form and genre based (monographs, serials, etc.), while sections 6 and 7 are format based (sound and visual, electronic). Entries are arranged alphabetically within each section. Where the number of entries warrants it, a section is divided into USA and Other. There is no index. Please be aware that most citations for items in electronic format are listed under their appropriate form/genre, i.e. articles in electronic serials are listed under serials. Section 7 (Internet, WWW, etc.) only contains citations for items in forms and genres irreducibly unique to the electronic environment, i.e. discussion lists (and postings and threads therein) and for those web sites and other electronic resources not subsumed under categories 1–7. Items cited are from the calendar year in the title of the Bibliography, with two exceptions, Internet/WWW items, where publication/creation date information is often unavailable or indeterminate, and older items not cited