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Some Functions of Rhetorical Questions in Lysias’ Forensic Orations (2022)
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Hall, E. (2022). Some Functions of Rhetorical Questions in Lysias’ Forensic Orations. Trends in Classics, 14(2), https://doi.org/10.1515/tc-2022-0015

The rhetorical question, often assumed to have been favoured by the sophist Gorgias, became a fundamental feature of ancient rhetoric in both Greek and Latin. By the time of Senecan tragedy, an accumulation of as many as seventeen serial rhetorical q... Read More about Some Functions of Rhetorical Questions in Lysias’ Forensic Orations.