A Commentary on Isocrates' Antidosis
Title | A Commentary on Isocrates' Antidosis PDF eBook |
Author | Yun Lee Too |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2008-06-05 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0191553433 |
How does one construct a role for oneself in the fourth-century democratic city? This commentary on Isocrates' Antidosis , which includes a full translation as well as an extensive introduction, demonstrates that a rhetorician may do so by assuming roles that subvert many of the conventions invoked by the genre - a non-speaker in a rhetorical community, a rhetorician in a world where rhetorical performativity has derogatory connotations, a philosopher following the trial of Socrates. Moreover, Yun Lee Too demonstrates how the narrative of 'self' in the Antidosis is to be understood as a sophisticated amalgam of literary, rhetorical, philosophical, and legal discourses.
A Commentary on Isocrates' Antidosis
Title | A Commentary on Isocrates' Antidosis PDF eBook |
Author | Yun Lee Too |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2008-06-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0199238073 |
Crucial to the question of self-characterization is how one can present a sympathetic persona through rhetoric, spoken or written, when rhetorical performance itself has derogatory connotations as a result of association with the professional speechmakers of classical Greece, the sophists."--BOOK JACKET.
The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates
Title | The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates PDF eBook |
Author | Yun Lee Too |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009-12-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521124522 |
The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates provides an interpretation of an important, but largely neglected and disregarded, fourth-century Athenian author to show how he uses writing to provide a model of political engagement that is distinct from his own contemporaries' (especially Plato's) and from our own notions of political involvement. It demonstrates that ancient rhetorical discourse raises issues of contemporary relevance, especially regarding the status of the written word and current debates on canon and curriculum in education.
Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle
Title | Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle PDF eBook |
Author | Ekaterina V. Haskins |
Publisher | Univ of South Carolina Press |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Logos (Philosophy) |
ISBN | 9781570035265 |
Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle presents Isocrates' vision of discourse as a worthy rival, rather than a mere precursor, of Aristotle's Rhetoric. It argues that much of what Aristotle said about the status of rhetoric and the role of discourse may have been a reaction to Isocrates.
The Essential Isocrates
Title | The Essential Isocrates PDF eBook |
Author | Jon D. Mikalson |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2022-07-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1477325549 |
The Essential Isocrates is a comprehensive introduction to Isocrates, one of ancient Greece’s foremost orators. Jon D. Mikalson presents Isocrates largely in his own words, with original English translations of selections of his writings on his life and times and on morality, religion, philosophy, rhetoric, education, political theory, and Greek and Athenian history. In Mikalson’s treatment, Isocrates receives his due not only as a major thinker but as one whose work has resonated across time, influencing even modern education practices and theory. Isocrates wrote extensively about Athens in the fourth century BCE and before, and his speeches, letters, and essays provide a trove of insights concerning the intellectual, political, and social currents of his time. Mikalson details what we know about Isocrates’s long, eventful, and complicated life, and much can be gleaned on the personal level from his own writings, as Isocrates was one of the most introspective authors of the Classical Period. By collecting the most representative and important passages of Isocrates’s writings, arranging them topically, and placing them in historical context, The Essential Isocrates invites general and expert readers alike to engage with one of antiquity’s most compelling men of ideas.
A Commentary on Isocrates' Busiris
Title | A Commentary on Isocrates' Busiris PDF eBook |
Author | Livingstone |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2017-07-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9047400925 |
This volume contains the first scholarly commentary on the puzzling work Busiris – part mythological jeu d’esprit, part rhetorical treatise and part self-promoting polemic – by the Greek educator and rhetorician Isocrates (436-338 BC). The commentary reveals Isocrates’ strategies in advertising his own political rhetoric as a middle way between amoral ‘sophistic’ education and the abstruse studies of Plato’s Academy. Introductory chapters situate Busiris within the lively intellectual marketplace of 4th-century Athens, showing how the work parodies Plato’s Republic, and how its revisionist treatment of the monster-king Busiris reflects Athenian fascination with the ‘alien wisdom’ of Egypt. As a whole, the book casts new light both on Isocrates himself, revealed as an agile and witty polemicist, and on the struggle between rhetoric and philosophy from which Hellenism and modern humanities were born.
Protrepticus
Title | Protrepticus PDF eBook |
Author | Aristotle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | Philosophy |
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