Minor Latin rhetoricians: Volume I

An annotated English translation and scholarly introduction to the corpus of texts edited and published in 1863 by Karl Felix Von Halm: Rhetores latini minores. In modern scholarly literature these texts tend to be understood as dry and technical ‘rhetorical handbooks’, lacking in originality and interest beyond their transmission of earlier material. In contrast, this volume aims to spotlight ‘the minor’ Late Roman Latin rhetoricians, bringing them and their works out of the shadows cast by ‘the major’ rhetoricians of the Late Roman Republic and Principate (Cicero, Quintilian, Tacitus). The proposed volume will be of interest and use to classicists and (late) ancient historians, in addition to scholars of Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern rhetoric, law, literature, intellectual history and the history of political thought.