Description: This book explores the transformation of western rhetoric from its Homeric Greek origins to that point where the Emperor Theodosius, in A.D. 395, divided the Roman Empire between his two sons, with the 'official' fall of the Roman Empire occurring in A.D. 476.
Review Quotes: "Dr. Tapia's perspective is unique. . . .He makes us aware of the generative power of rhetoric. . . .[and] handles the quarrels between Plato and Sophists in a magisterial way without the silly partisanship that has come to characterize so much postmodern scholarship." --Andrew A. King, Louisiana State University; editor of Postmodern Political Communication