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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
November 2021
Print publication year:
2021
Online ISBN:
9781108873956
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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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