Author: Antiphon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780865160880
Category : Orators
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Antiphon & Lysias
Author: Antiphon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780865160880
Category : Orators
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780865160880
Category : Orators
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Antiphon the Athenian
Author: Michael Gagarin
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292781832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Antiphon was a fifth-century Athenian intellectual (ca. 480-411 BCE) who created the profession of speechwriting while serving as an influential and highly sought-out adviser to litigants in the Athenian courts. Three of his speeches are preserved, together with three sets of Tetralogies (four hypothetical paired speeches), whose authenticity is sometimes doubted. Fragments also survive of intellectual treatises on subjects including justice, law, and nature (physis), which are often attributed to a separate Antiphon the Sophist. Were these two Antiphons really one and the same individual, endowed with a wide-ranging mind ready to tackle most of the diverse intellectual interests of his day? Through an analysis of all these writings, this book convincingly argues that they were composed by a single individual, Antiphon the Athenian. Michael Gagarin sets close readings of individual works within a wider discussion of the fifth-century Athenian intellectual climate and the philosophical ferment known as the sophistic movement. This enables him to demonstrate the overall coherence of Antiphon's interests and writings and to show how he was a pivotal figure between the sophists and the Attic orators of the fourth century. In addition, Gagarin's argument allows us to reassess the work of the sophists as a whole, so that they can now be seen as primarily interested in logos (speech, argument) and as precursors of fourth-century rhetoric, rather than in their usual role as foils for Plato.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292781832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Antiphon was a fifth-century Athenian intellectual (ca. 480-411 BCE) who created the profession of speechwriting while serving as an influential and highly sought-out adviser to litigants in the Athenian courts. Three of his speeches are preserved, together with three sets of Tetralogies (four hypothetical paired speeches), whose authenticity is sometimes doubted. Fragments also survive of intellectual treatises on subjects including justice, law, and nature (physis), which are often attributed to a separate Antiphon the Sophist. Were these two Antiphons really one and the same individual, endowed with a wide-ranging mind ready to tackle most of the diverse intellectual interests of his day? Through an analysis of all these writings, this book convincingly argues that they were composed by a single individual, Antiphon the Athenian. Michael Gagarin sets close readings of individual works within a wider discussion of the fifth-century Athenian intellectual climate and the philosophical ferment known as the sophistic movement. This enables him to demonstrate the overall coherence of Antiphon's interests and writings and to show how he was a pivotal figure between the sophists and the Attic orators of the fourth century. In addition, Gagarin's argument allows us to reassess the work of the sophists as a whole, so that they can now be seen as primarily interested in logos (speech, argument) and as precursors of fourth-century rhetoric, rather than in their usual role as foils for Plato.
The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos
Author: Richard Claverhouse Jebb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Orators
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Orators
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Creating the Ancient Rhetorical Tradition
Author: Laura Viidebaum
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108875807
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108875807
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
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.
Lectures on Ancient History
Author: Barthold Georg Niebuhr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Lectures on ancient history, from the earliest times to the taking of Alexandria by Octavianus, tr. from the Germ. ed. of M. Niebuhr, by L. Schmitz, with additions and corrections from his own MS. notes
Author: Barthold Georg Niebuhr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Hortensius, the Advocate
Author: William Forsyth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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The History of Lawyers, Ancient and Modern
Author: William Forsyth
Publisher:
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Category : Jurisprudence
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jurisprudence
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Hortensius
Author: William Forsyth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Extemporary Speech in Antiquity
Author: Hazel Louise Brown
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rhetoric, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rhetoric, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description