Speaking for the Polis: Isocrates' Rhetorical Education

by Takis Poulakos

Book Overview

A revaluing of rhetoric in the educational model of the father of humanistic studies

Speaking for the Polis considers Isocrates' educational program from the perspective of rhetorical theory and explores its relation to sociopolitical practices. Illumining Isocrates' efforts to reformulate sophistic conceptions of rhetoric on the basis of the intellectual and political debates of his times, Takis Poulakos contends that the father...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570037930
• ISBN13: 9781570037931
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"