TY - BOOK AU - Kennedy,George Alexander TI - Progymnasmata: Greek textbooks of prose composition and rhetoric SN - 158983061X AV - PA257 .P76 2003 U1 - 885.09 22 PY - 2003/// CY - Atlanta PB - Society of Biblical Literature KW - Greek language KW - Composition and exercises KW - Early works to 1800 KW - Rhetoric, Ancient N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents: ch. 1. The exercises of Aelius Theon -- ch. 2. The preliminary exercises attributed to Hermogenes -- ch. 3. The preliminary exercises of Aphthonius the Sophist -- ch. 4. The preliminary exercises of Nicolaus the Sophist -- ch. 5. Selections from the Commentary on the Progymnasmata of Aphthonius attributed to John of Sardis, including fragments of the Treatise on Progymnasmata by Sopatros ER -