From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Overall very good and clean. - In this reinterpretation of Isocrates rhetorical achievements, Takis Poulakos evaluates the Greek orators educational program from the perspective of rhetorical theory and its relation to sociopolitical practices. Illumining Isocrates effort to reformulate sophistic conceptions of rhetoric on the basis of the intellectual and political debates of his time, Poulakos contends that the father of humanistic studies and rival educator of Plato crafted a version of rhetoric that gave the art an important new role in the ethical and political activities of Athens.
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