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Author Rademaker, Adriaan, 1965-

Title Sophrosyne and the rhetoric of self-restraint : polysemy & persuasive use of an ancient Greek value term / by Adriaan Rademaker.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 375 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 0169-8958 ; 259
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 259. 0169-8958
Note Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universiteit Leiden, 2004.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-365) and indexes.
Contents Preface; Chapter One Introduction; Chapter Two Homer; Chapter Three Archaic Poetry; Chapter Four Aeschylus; Chapter Five Sophocles; Chapter Six Euripides; Chapter Seven Historiography; Chapter Eight Aristophanes and the Orators; Chapter Nine Preliminary Conclusions: The Meaning of s?f??s??? in Plato's Time: A Synchronic Description; Chapter Ten Plato; References; General Index; Index of Greek Terms; Selective Index of Works and Passages.
Summary This study provides a new description of the semantics of sophrosyne, and investigates the use of the term as an instrument of persuasion in the main texts from the Archaic and Classical era.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Subject Plato -- Language.
Plato.
Plato -- Language.
Sōphrosynē (The Greek word)
Sōphrosynē (The Greek word)
Greek language -- Polysemy.
Greek language.
Polysemy.
Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500.
Persuasion (Rhetoric)
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Temperance (Virtue)
Temperance (Virtue)
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Academic theses.
Academic theses.
Other Form: Print version: Rademaker, Adriaan, 1965- Sophrosyne and the rhetoric of self-restraint. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005 (DLC) 2005297393
ISBN 9789047406983 (electronic book)
9047406982 (electronic book)
1433703831
9781433703836
9789004142510 (acid-free paper)
9004142517 (acid-free paper)
9004142517 (acid-free paper)