The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates ：Text, Power, Pedagogy ( Cambridge Classical Studies )

Publication subTitle ：Text, Power, Pedagogy

Publication series ：Cambridge Classical Studies

Author： Yun Lee Too;

Publisher： Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year： 1995

E-ISBN: 9781316892404

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521474061

P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780521474061

Subject： K1 World History

Keyword：世界史

Language： ENG

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Shows how Isocrates used writing to provide a model of political engagement distinct from that of his own contemporaries. The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates provides an interpretation of an important, but largely neglected and disregarded, fourth-century Athenian author to show how he uses writing to provide a model of political engagement which is distinct from his own contemporaries' (especially Plato's) and from our own notions of political involvement. The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates provides an interpretation of an important, but largely neglected and disregarded, fourth-century Athenian author to show how he uses writing to provide a model of political engagement which is distinct from his own contemporaries' (especially Plato's) and from our own notions of political involvement. The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates offers a sustained interpretation of the Isocratean corpus, showing that rhetoric is a language which the author uses to create a political identity for himself in fourth-century Athens. Dr Too examines how Isocrates' discourse addresses anxieties surrounding the written word in a democratic culture which values the spoken word as the privileged means of political expression. Isocrates makes written culture the basis for a revisionary Athenian politics and of a rhetoric of Athenian hegemony. In addition, Isocrates takes issue with the popular image of the professional teacher in the age of the sophist, combating the negative stereotype of the gree