Encomium and Thesis in Galen’s <i>De parvae pilae exercitio</i>

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  • Craig A. Gibson University of Iowa

Abstract

Galen’s tract on the benefits of ball-playing, assessed in terms of the handbooks of rhetoric, can be seen to take the rhetorical form of a thesis organized around the headings of the encomium of a human practice.

Author Biography

Craig A. Gibson, University of Iowa

Professor of Classics

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2014-06-10

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