Plato: Gorgias, Menexenus, Protagoras
Plato: Gorgias, Menexenus, Protagoras

Author: Malcolm Schofield

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-11-19

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780521546003

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Presented in the popular Cambridge Texts format are three early Platonic dialogues in a new English translation by Tom Griffith that combines elegance, accuracy, freshness and fluency. Together they offer strikingly varied examples of Plato's critical encounter with the culture and politics of fifth and fourth century Athens. Nowhere does he engage more sharply and vigorously with the presuppositions of democracy. The Gorgias is a long and impassioned confrontation between Socrates and a succession of increasingly heated interlocutors about political rhetoric as an instrument of political power. The short Menexenus contains a pastiche of celebratory public oratory, illustrating its self-delusions. In the Protagoras, another important contribution to moral and political philosophy in its own right, Socrates takes on leading intellectuals (the 'sophists') of the later fifth century BC and their pretensions to knowledge. The dialogues are introduced and annotated by Malcolm Schofield, a leading authority on ancient Greek political philosophy.

The complete works
The complete works

Author: Publius Aelius Aristides

Publisher: Brill Archive

Published: 1986-01-01

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13: 9789004078444

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Aelius Aristides is one of the most important sources for the history of the social, cultural, and religious life of the second century of the Roman Empire. However, the difficulty of his style and the occasional obscurity of the material contained in his writings have effectively prevented modern historians from fully utilizing his works. To remedy this deficiency, in conjunction with the new edition of the Greek text of Aristides, which was earlier published by Brill, a translation of all of Aristides' works into a modern language has been prepared. The translation, which also includes the first collection of fragments of lost works of Aristides and inscriptions which pertain to him, has been made according to the new revision of the Greek text and is provided with a commentary and index, which will facilitate its use by both specialists and laymen alike.

Complete Works
Complete Works

Author: Plato

Publisher: Hackett Publishing

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 1852

ISBN-13: 9780872203495

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Gathers translations of Plato's works and includes guidance on approaching their reading and study

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 88
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 88

Author: D. R. Shackleton Bailey

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9780674379350

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This volume of thirteen essays includes "Tantalus and Anaxagoras"; "Notes on Seneca 'Rhetor'"; "More on Pseudo-Quintilian's Longer Declamations"; "Lurius Varus, a Stray Consular Legate"; and "Loss of Self, Suffering, Violence: The Modern View of Dionysus from Nietzsche to Girard."

Plato: Menexenus
Plato: Menexenus

Author: David Sansone

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-08-13

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1108606334

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Plato challenges his readers by depicting an elderly Socrates as an enthusiastic student of rhetoric who has learned from his teacher Aspasia to recite an inspiring funeral oration, an oration that conspicuously refers to events occurring after the deaths of Socrates and Aspasia, an oration that Aspasia, as a woman and a non-Athenian, was not eligible to deliver over the Athenians who died in war. This commentary, the first in English in over 100 years, assists the modern reader in confronting Plato's challenge. The Introduction sets the dialogue in the context of the traditional Athenian funeral oration and of Plato's ongoing critique of contemporary rhetoric. The Commentary, which is well suited to the needs and interests of intermediate students of Classical Greek, provides guidance on grammatical and historical matters, while allowing the student to appreciate Plato's mastery of Greek prose style and critique of democratic ideology.

Lessons from the Past
Lessons from the Past

Author: Frances Anne Pownall

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2010-02-09

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 0472025678

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Because of the didactic nature of the historical genre, many scholars ancient and modern have seen connections between history and rhetoric. So far, discussion has centered on fifth-century authors -- Herodotus and Thucydides, along with the sophists and early philosophers. Pownall extends the focus of this discussion into an important period. By focusing on key intellectuals and historians of the fourth century (Plato and the major historians -- Xenophon, Ephorus, and Theopompus), she examines how these prose writers created an aristocratic version of the past as an alternative to the democratic version of the oratorical tradition. Frances Pownall is Professor of History and Classics, University of Alberta.

Rhetorical Theory by Women Before 1900
Rhetorical Theory by Women Before 1900

Author: Jane Donawerth

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 9780742517172

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This anthology is the first to feature women's rhetorical theory from the fifth through the nineteenth centuries. Assembling selections on rhetoric, composition, and communication by 24 women around the world, this valuable collection demonstrates an often-overlooked history of rhetoric as well as women's interest in conversation as a model for all discourse. Among the theorists included are Aspasia, Pan Chao, Sei Shonagon, Madeleine de Scudéry, Hannah More, Hallie Quinn Brown, and Mary Augusta Jordan. The book also contains an extensive introduction, explanatory headnotes, and detailed annotations.