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1 online resource (xiii, 274 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Cambridge classical studies
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Cambridge classical studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-259) and indexes. |
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1. Isocrates and logos politikos -- 2. The unities of discourse -- 3. The politics of the small voice -- 4. Isocrates in his own write -- 5. The pedagogical contract -- 6. The politics of discipleship -- Appendix 1: Isocrates and Gorgias -- Appendix 2: Concerning the Chariot-team. |
| Summary |
The rhetoric of identity in Isocrates offers a sustained interpretation of the Isocratean corpus, showing that rhetoric is a language which the author uses to create a political identity for himself in fourth-century Athens. Dr Too examines how Isocrates' discourse addresses anxieties surrounding the written word in a democratic culture which values the spoken word as the privileged means of political expression. Isocrates makes written culture the basis for a revisionary Athenian politics and of a rhetoric of Athenian hegemony. In addition, Isocrates takes issue with the popular image of the professional teacher in the age of the sophist, combating the negative stereotype of the greedy sophist who corrupts the city's youth in his portrait of himself as a teacher of rhetoric. He daringly reinterprets the pedagogue as a figure who produces a discourse which articulates political authority. |
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This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to ancient rhetoric and should appeal to people with interests in the fields of classics, history, the history of political thought, literature, literary theory, philosophy and education. All passages in Greek and Latin have been translated to ensure accessibility to non-classicists. |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Isocrates -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Isocrates. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Isocrates. |
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Isocrate. |
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Isocrate, 0435?-0338 av. J.-C. |
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Isocrate -- Critique et interprétation. |
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Isocrate, (0435?-0338 av. J.-C.) -- Critique et interprétation. |
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Isocrates. |
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Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek -- History and criticism.
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Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek. |
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Athens (Greece) -- Politics and government.
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Political oratory -- Greece -- Athens.
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Political oratory. |
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Greece -- Athens. |
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Rhetoric, Ancient.
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Rhetoric, Ancient. |
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Oratory, Ancient.
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Oratory, Ancient. |
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Speeches |
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Greece |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Too, Yun Lee. Rhetoric of identity in Isocrates 052147406X (DLC) 94020628 (OCoLC)30624262 |
| ISBN |
9781107720084 (electronic book) |
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1107720087 (electronic book) |
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052147406X |
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9780521474061 |
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