The Genuine Teachers of this Art

Résumé

Prologue: rhetoric and/as rhetorical pedagogy -- Cicero's Antonius -- On the technē of Isocrates (I) -- On the technē of Isocrates (II) -- In the garden of talking birds: declamation and civic theater -- Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the notion of rhetorical scholarship -- Epilogue: William Dean Howells and the Sophist's shoes.