Introduction
Mesopotamian Rhetoric
The Birth of Rhetoric
William W. Hallo
The Rhetoric of Origins and the Other: Reading the Ancient Figure of Enheduanna
Roberta Binkley
Neo-Assyrian Rhetoric: The Example of the Third Campaign of Sennacherib (704681 B.C.)
Paul Y. Hoskisson and Grant M. Boswell
Egyptian Rhetoric
Ancient Egyptian Rhetoric: It All Comes Down to Maat
Carol S. Lipson
Law, Rhetoric, and Gender in Ramesside Egypt
Deborah Sweeney
Chinese Rhetoric
The Use of Eloquence: The Confucian Perspective
George Q. Xu
Confucian Silence and Remonstration: A Basis for Deliberation?
Arabella Lyon
"Nothing Can Be Accomplished If the Speech Does Not Sound Agreeable:" Rhetoric and the Invention of Classical Chinese Discourse
Yameng Liu
Biblical Rhetoric
Pentateuchal Rhetoric and the Voice of the Aaronides
David Metzger
Alternative Greek Rhetoric
The Art of Rhetoric at Rhodes: An Eastern Rival to the Athenian Representation of Classical Rhetoric
Richard Leo Enos
Cross-Cultural Rhetorical Studies
Story-List-Sanction: A Cross-Cultural Strategy of Ancient Persuasion
James W. Watts
Song to Speech: The Origins of Early Epitaphia in Ancient Near Eastern Women's Lamentations
C. Jan Swearingen
Suggestions for Teaching Ancient Rhetorics
List of Contributors
Index