The Rhetorical Exercises of Nikephoros Basilakes: Progymnasmata from Twelfth-Century Byzantium by Nikephoros Basilakes

The Rhetorical Exercises of Nikephoros Basilakes: Progymnasmata from Twelfth-Century Byzantium

Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library

Nikephoros Basilakes with Jeffrey Beneker (Translator), Craig A. Gibson (Translator)

416 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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Progymnasmata, preliminary exercises in the study of declamation, were the cornerstone of elite education from Hellenistic through Byzantine times. Using material from Greek literary, mythological, and historical traditions, students and writers c...

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