“北外伊莎白讲堂”

英美文学研究中心学术讲座No. 59

The Elements of Classical Rhetoric

古典修辞学要素

讲座时间：2025年4月22日14:00-16:00

讲座地点：英语学院111会议室

演讲人：Charles Weiss 副教授（剑桥大学古典学系）

主持人：邵雪萍 博士（北京外国语大学英语学院）

讲座介绍：

In this lecture we will seek to understand the fundamental terms of analysis that Ancient Greeks and Romans devised when they invented western “rhetoric”. What does it mean to compose a sentence or to analyze a sentence or to put the sentence to work and make it perform some function, like persuasion or narrative? The terms of rhetorical analysis are still in use today and are essential for understanding not just western rhetoric but western literature in general and the language that is used to describe it. These terms range from grammatical to psychological and even philosophical and we will situate the development of rhetoric in its historical context of Ancient Greece and Rome. No knowledge of Greek and Latin is required to enjoy the lecture.

讲座人信息：

Dr. Weiss came from Atlanta, Georgia to study Classics at Columbia University (BA and MA) and Yale University (PhD), focusing on the languages and literatures of both Ancient Greek and Latin. He then went to Oxford to teach the subject for five years before taking a post (in 2003) with the Faculty of Classics at Cambridge. Dr Weiss is an Associate Professor in Classics at Cambridge and Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics for Clare College, Cambridge. Dr Weiss specializes in language pedagogy in both languages and teaches Classical languages and literature for Clare College. In 2012 he published a student’s introduction to Homer’s Odyssey for Cambridge University Press and is currently working on guides to Ancient Greek and Latin for English and Chinese students.