Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity

Rating:
Summary: Fascinating, not just for the specialist
Review: Really interesting history of rhetoric, that argues that rhetoric and poetics are inextricably combined from Hesiod to Cassiodorus, with Isocrates as a kind of lynchpin of the whole thing.

Well-written and carefully explained, the book doesn't require specialist knowledge. Also to this layman the book's thesis was very convincing.