Preface (in Polish) ............................................ IX
Preface (in English) ......................................... ХIII
Chapter I
Byzantine definitions of rhetoric and the Greek tradition ....... 1
1 Plato's definition ........................................... 1
2 Aristotle's definition ....................................... 8
3 Hermagoras' definition ...................................... 16
4 Dionysius' of Halicamassus definition ....................... 19
5 Why Hermogenes did not formulate the definition of
rhetoric? ................................................... 27
6 The standard definition of Byzantine rhetoric ............... 31
Chapter II
Byzantine treatises on rhetoric ................................ 53
1 Prolegomena, i.e., introductions to rhetorical treatises .... 53
2 Commentaries to Aphthonius and Hermogenes ................... 86
3 Epitomai, i.e., summaries of the rhetorical theory ......... 116
4 The single extant encyclopaedic study of the theory of
rhetoric ................................................... 126
Chapter III
Byzantine treatises on figures and tropes ..................... 135
1 Treatises on figures ....................................... 136
2 Treatises on tropes ........................................ 150
Conclusion (in Polish) ........................................ 159
Conclusion (in English) ....................................... 160
Bibliography .................................................. 161
1 Texts ...................................................... 161
2 Dissertations .............................................. 162
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