Excerpt from Antithesis in the Attic Orators From Antiphon to Isaeus: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, (Department or Greek) The Greeks were the first, so far as we know, to employ antithesis extensively; first to analyze it, and formulate the principles of its usage. Any scientific treatment of the figure must accordingly begin with them. The field of Attic eloquence has been chosen as being the most suitable for the study of the subject. And there is no better standard than antithesis for a comparative study of the rhetorical style of the several orators. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.