books.google.com - Rhetoric -- the theory of oral discourse -- affected and indeed pervaded all aspects of classical thought. Bearing the stamp of its impact were the Homeric hymns, the Iliad and the Odyssey, Aeschylus' Eumenides, the great dramatic tragedies, the elegiac and lyric poetry, and the literature of the Romans,...http://books.google.com/books/about/Readings_in_Classical_Rhetoric.html?id=TopF6kEBotMC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareReadings in Classical Rhetoric