Rhetoric before and beyond the Greeks

Rhetoric before and beyond the Greeks

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1-267

  Lipson, Carol S ^a   Binkley, Roberta A ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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