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KENNEDY, G.A., A New History of Classical Rhetoric. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1994. XII,301p. Original black cloth bound. Spine silver titled. (Rare thus). This ‘volume reads easily and engagingly as a history of rhetoric for the students K. intends as its audience (p.xi). But ‘A New History’ is valuable too for the specialist in providing an overview that is generally lacking in a scholarly tradition that tends to draw boundaries between study of matters Greek and Roman, pagan and Christian. The book progresses chronologically with chapters devoted to Athenian theory and practice (ch.3 and 4), Hellenistic rhetoric (ch.5), early Roman rhetoric (ch.6), Cicero (ch.7), Augustan rhetoric (ch.8), the silver Age (ch.9), Greek rhetoric in the roman empire (ch.10), the second sophistic (ch.11), Christianity and classical rhetoric (ch.12), and the survival of classical rhetoric after late antiquity (ch.13). (…) Where the book does its most important service is in reminding the academic community of the importance in the intellectual heritage of the West and in making this available and accessible to a broad reading public.’ (Y.L. TOO in the Classical Review (New Series), 1996, pp.60-61). € 69.50 (Antiquarian) ISBN: 9780691034430