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Hock, Ronald Francis was born on June 15, 1944 in Elmhurst, Illinois, United States. Son of Francis Allen and Grace Magdalen (Hiltenbrand) Hock.
(The chreia was a particular form of educational text that...)
The chreia was a particular form of educational text that was important from the early Roman empire to the late Byzantine period. The chreia taught pupils how to write letters and form them into words, how to write the correct forms and endings of Greek and Latin sentences and how to learn stylistic skills through creating an essay. This second volume in a series of three includes 36 examples illustrating the use of chreia in all three stages of the ancient educational curriculum. Extracts are accompanied by an English translation.
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This book provides the first translations in English and a preliminary analysis of the commentaries on the chreia chapter in Aphthoniuss standard Progymnasmata, a classroom guide on composition. The chreia, or anecdote, was a popular form that preserved the wisdom of philosophers, kings, generals, and sophists. Aphthonius used the chreia to provide instructions on how to construct an argument and to confirm the validity of the chreia by means of an eight-paragraph essay. His treatment of this classroom exercise, however, was so brief that commentators needed to clarify, explain, and supplement what he had written as well as to situate the chreia as preparation for the study of rhetoricthe kinds of public speeches and the parts of a speech. By means of these Byzantine commentaries, we can thus see more clearly how this important form and its confirmation were taught in classrooms for over a thousand years.
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Hock, Ronald Francis was born on June 15, 1944 in Elmhurst, Illinois, United States. Son of Francis Allen and Grace Magdalen (Hiltenbrand) Hock.
Bachelor, Northern Illinois University, 1966. Bachelor's Degree, Southern Methodist University, 1969. Master of Philosophy, Yale University, 1972.
Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1974.
Assistant professor religion, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1975-1981; associate professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, since 1981.
(This book provides the first translations in English and ...)
(The chreia was a particular form of educational text that...)
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Member Society Bib. Literature, Institute Antiquity and Christianity, Society Novi Testamenti Studorium.
Married Carol Elenore Erlandson, June 11, 1966. Children: Jennifer Lynne, David Ronald.