Is it fair to judge early Greek rhetoric by the standards of Plato and Aristotle? Arguing against the common view that it is, this work sees early Greek rhetori... » 

Is it fair to judge early Greek rhetoric by the standards of Plato and Aristotle? Arguing against the common view that it is, this work sees early Greek rhetoric as largely unsystematic efforts to explore, more by means than by precept, all aspects of discourse. «