Chapter
Literacy and Greek Philosophy
Four Hermeneutic Principles
Chapter 3: The "Invention" of Rhetoric
Did Plato Coin Rhêtorikê?
The "Invention" Myths Reconsidered
Sophistic Teaching Reconsidered
Chapter 4: Toward an Understanding of Sophistic Theories of Rhetoric
Historical Reconstruction and Contemporary Appropriation
Poulakos' Sophistic Definition of Rhetoric
Toward Individualistic Studies of the Sophists
Part II: Analysis of the Major Fragments of Protagoras
Chapter 5: The Two-Logoi Fragment
The Subjective and Heraclitean Interpretations
The Advancement of Heraclitean Thought
Translation and Interpretation
Chapter 6: The "Stronger and Weaker" Logoi Fragment
The Pejorative Interpretation
The Positive Interpretation
The Evidence of Aristophanes' Clouds
Protagoras' Influence on Plato and Aristotle
Chapter 7: The "Human-Measure" Fragment
Reconsidering the Standard Translation
The Fragment as a Response to Parmenides
Chapter 8: The "Impossible to Contradict" Fragment
Competing Interpretations of Ouk Estin Antilegein
Positive Contributions of Ouk Estin Antilegein
Chapter 9: The "Concerning the Gods" Fragment
Agnosticism or Anthropology?
Two More Protagorean Fragments
Part III: Protagoras and Early Greek Philosophy and Rhetoric
Chapter 10: Protagoras and Fifth-Century Education
The Mythic-Poetic Tradition
Providing a Logos of Logos
Protagoras and Civic Aretê
Chapter 11: Protagoras, Logos, and the Polis
Protagoras and Periclean Democracy
Protagoras' Vision of the Polis
Chapter 12: Protagoras "versus" Plato and Aristotle
The Refutation of Protagoras
Rejection or Assimilation?
Chapter 13: Protagoras' Legacy to Rhetorical Theory
Rhetorical Salience and Role of Theory
Plato, Rhêtorikê, and the Sophists
Appendix A: Chronology of Protagoras' Life
Appendix B: Data from the TLG Search for ρητορικ
Appendix C: Three Spurious Attributions