encomium and thesis in galen’s de parvae pilae exercitio
;Craig A. Gibson
Fitoterapia2014Vol. 54pp. 462-473
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Abstract
Galen’s tract on the benefits of ball-playing, assessed in terms of the handbooks of rhetoric, can be seen to take the rhetorical form of a thesis organized around the headings of the encomium of a human practice.