{"product_id":"9780472133338-stock-characters-speaking","title":"Stock Characters Speaking","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEight Libanian Declamations Introduced and Translated\u003cbr\u003eDeclamations were composed and orally delivered in the Roman Empire by sophists, or teachers of rhetoric, of whom the Greek-speaking Libanius was one of the most distinguished. In this book, author Robert Penella translates eight of Libanius’s declamations: 29, 30, 34, 35, 37, 45, 46, 47.\u003cbr\u003eDeclamations were composed and orally delivered in the Roman Empire by sophists, or teachers of rhetoric, of whom the Greek-speaking Libanius was one of the most distinguished. \u003ci\u003eStock Characters Speaking \u003c\/i\u003emay be thought of as emerging from three developments of recent decades: an explosive interest in late antiquity, a newly sympathetic interest in rhetoric (including ancient declamation), and a desire to bring Libanius’s massive corpus into English and other modern languages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this book, author Robert J. Penella translates eight of Libanius’s declamations: 29, 30, 34, 35, 37, 45, 46, 47, and, in an appendix, the thirteenth-century Gregory of Cyprus’s response to \u003ci\u003eDeclamation\u003c\/i\u003e 34. Each translation is accompanied by an introduction, in which Penella examines the themes, structure, and the \u003ci\u003estasis\u003c\/i\u003e, or key issue, of the declamations. Figures who appear in the translated declamations include a parasite who has lost his patron, a man envious of his rich neighbor, a miser’s son, a poor man willing to die for his city, a rich war-hero accused of aiming at tyranny, and a convict asking for exile. Three of these declamations have appeared in German; otherwise, these translations are the first into a modern language.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40810186014817,"sku":"9780472133338","price":95.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_30208894.jpg?v=1728449109","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780472133338-stock-characters-speaking","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}