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      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      November 2021
      November 2021
      ISBN:
      9781108873956
      9781108836562
      9781108812580
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      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.49kg, 292 Pages
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      (216 x 140 mm)
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      0.37kg, 292 Pages
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    This book explores the history of rhetorical thought and examines the gradual association of different aspects of rhetorical theory with two outstanding fourth-century BCE writers: Lysias and Isocrates. It highlights the parallel development of the rhetorical tradition that became understood, on the one hand, as a domain of style and persuasive speech, associated with the figure of Lysias, and, on the other, as a kind of philosophical enterprise which makes significant demands on moral and political education in antiquity, epitomized in the work of Isocrates. There are two pivotal moments in which the two rhetoricians were pitted against each other as representatives of different modes of cultural discourse: Athens in the fourth century BCE, as memorably portrayed in Plato's Phaedrus, and Rome in the first century BCE when Dionysius of Halicarnassus proposes to create from the united Lysianic and Isocratean rhetoric the foundation for the ancient rhetorical tradition. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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    ‘This book is a must-read for anyone wrestling with Plato’s relationship with rhetoric (a perennial vexation), anyone intrigued by Lysias’s unlikely tenacity (a minor feeling, perhaps), anyone longing for Isocrates to be taken seriously (a periodic desire), or anyone who has decided they can no longer put off reading more about Dionysius of Halicarnassus (an increasingly popular judgment).’

    Michele Kennerly Source: Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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    Contents

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    • Creating the Ancient Rhetorical Tradition
      pp i-i
    • Cambridge Classical Studies - Series page
      pp ii-ii
    • Creating the Ancient Rhetorical Tradition - Title page
      pp iii-iii
    • Copyright page
      pp iv-iv
    • Dedication
      pp v-vi
    • Contents
      pp vii-viii
    • Acknowledgements
      pp ix-xi
    • Abbreviations
      pp xii-xii
    • Introduction
      pp 1-16
    • Part I - Lysias, Isocrates and Plato: Ancient Rhetoric in Athens
      pp 17-136
    • 1 - Lysias in Athens
      pp 19-31
    • 2 - Reflections on Lysias and Lysianic Rhetoric in the Fourth Century BCE
      pp 32-61
    • 3 - Isocrates and His Work on Rhetoric and Philosophy
      pp 62-91
    • 4 - Isocrates on Socrates
      pp 92-105
    • 5 - Contemporary Reflections on Isocrates and His Role in Rhetoric and Philosophy
      pp 106-136
    • Part II - Creating the Ancient Rhetorical Tradition: Dionysius of Halicarnassus in Rome
      pp 137-244
    • 6 - From Athens to Rome
      pp 139-175
    • Lysias, Isocrates and the Transmission of Greek Rhetoric and Philosophy
    • 7 - Dionysius of Halicarnassus on Lysias, Rhetoric and Style
      pp 176-213
    • 8 - Isocrates and Philosophy in Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ Rhetorical Writings
      pp 214-244
    • Bibliography
      pp 245-270
    • Index
      pp 271-278

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