Speaking for the Polis: Isocrates' Rhetorical Education

Speaking for the Polis: Isocrates' Rhetorical Education
ISBN-10
1570031770
ISBN-13
9781570031779
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
154
Language
English
Published
1997
Publisher
Univ of South Carolina Press
Author
Takis Poulakos

Description

Illumining Isocrates' effort to reformulate sophistic conceptions of rhetoric on the basis of the intellectual and political debates of his time, Poulakos contends that the father of humanistic studies and rival educator of Plato crafted a version of rhetoric that gave the art an important new role in the ethical and political activities of Athens.

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