Progymnasmata: Greek Textbooks of Prose Composition and Rhetoric (Writings from the Greco-roman World) (English and Greek Edition);

For students of classical, medieval, and early modern literature and of the history of education, Kennedy (classics emeritus, U. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) presents and comments on four Greek treatises for teaching prose composition and elementary rhetoric. They were written during the time of the Roman Empire and studied throughout the Byzanti