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Progymnasmata: Greek Textbooks of Prose Composition and Rhetoric
Several of these works have never before been translated into English and are made accessible to the general reader for the first time. George A. Kennedy, one of the world's leading scholars of ancient rhetoric, provides an English translation of four Greek treatises written during the time of the Roman empire but studied throughout the Roman and Byzantine periods--works a...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
March 28th 2003
by Society of Biblical Literature
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The progymnasmata are "preliminary exercises" that were given to students who had completed their training in Grammar and Logic (though sometimes Logic followed after the progymnasmata) as part of the classical Trivium (Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic). The exercises are set up to be successive stages that progress the student from the easiest compositions to the most difficult; preparing the student to become proficient in elements useful for legal, legislative, and ceremonial discourse.
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