Specialized studies have been published on many topics, too many to list here. The standard general survey of the Hellenistic period remains P. Green, From Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age (Berkeley and Los Angeles: 1990). More succinct, but nevertheless offering fairly detailed discussions of developments in literature, philosophy, religion, and science, is G. Shipley, The Greek World after Alexander 323-30 BC (London: 2000). Most recently, there is A. Erskine (ed.), Blackwell Companion to the Hellenistic World (Oxford: 2003), which covers many aspects of the Hellenistic World. Most topics addressed in this chapter are treated in the standard works on Greek rhetoric, which have generally not been cited in the notes. Pride of place in English must be given to G. A. Kennedy, The Art of Persuasion in Greece (Princeton: 1963); more recent is his A New History of Classical Rhetoric (Princeton: 1994), a single volume that combines material from his separate treatments of Greek, Roman, and Late Antique rhetoric. Even more recent is the English translation by W. E. Higgins of L. Pernot, Rhetoric in Antiquity (Washington: 2005), originally published in France in 2000. S. E. Porter (ed.), Handbook of Classical Rhetoric in the Hellenistic Period, 330 BC-AD 400 (Leiden: 2001), offers essays on many aspects of rhetoric, including a considerable number on Christianity and Christian writers. On technical aspects of rhetoric, readers may consult Pernot’s brief‘Thesaurus: The System of Rhetoric’ appended to the main text of his Rhetoric in Antiquity cited above) at pp. 215-235. For more detailed definitions and discussion of figures and other technical aspects of rhetoric, see G. A. Rowe, ‘Style’, in S. E. Porter, Handbook of Classical Rhetoric (cited above), pp. 121-157. To the extent that literary criticism and rhetorical theory coincide, a still useful work is G. M.A. Grube, The Greek and Roman Critics (Toronto: 1965), who treats individual authors, including Demetrius, in sequence. D. A. Russell, Criticism in Antiquity (Berkeley and Los Angeles: 1981), is more recent and follows some narrative chapters with thematic ones. D. A. Russell and M. Winterbottom (eds.), Ancient Literary Criticism. The Principal Texts in New Translations (Oxford: 1972), provide introductions and translations of the main texts.
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