This complete guide to ancient Greek rhetoric is exceptional both in its chronological range and the breadth of topics it covers. * Traces the rise of rhetoric and its uses from Homer to Byzantium * Covers wider-ranging topics such as rhetoric's relationship to knowledge, ethics, religion, law, and emotion * Incorporates new material giving us fresh insights into how the Greeks saw and used rhetoric * Discusses the idea of rhetoric and examines the status of rhetoric studies, present and future * All quotations from ancient sources are translated into English