Logos without Rhetoric ：The Arts of Language before Plato ( Studies in Rhetoric/Communication )

Publication subTitle ：The Arts of Language before Plato

Publication series ：Studies in Rhetoric/Communication

Author： Reames Robin;Schiappa Edward;Benson Thomas W.

Publisher： University of South Carolina Press‎

Publication year： 2017

E-ISBN: 9781611177695

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781611177688

Subject： B0 Philosophical Theory;H0 Linguistics;H05 Writing and Rhetoric

Keyword：语言学,哲学理论,写作学与修辞学

Language： ENG

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Description

A germinal examination of rhetoric’s beginnings through pre-fourth-century Greek texts

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Cover

Logos without Rhetoric

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Contents

Series Editor’s Preface

Preface and Acknowledgments

A Note on Translations

Introduction

Unity, Dissociation, and Schismogenesis in Isocrates

Theodorus Byzantius on the Parts of a Speech

Gorgias’ “On Non-Being”: Genre, Purpose, and Testimonia

Parmenides: Philosopher, Rhetorician, Skywalker

Heraclitus’ Doublespeak: The Paradoxical Origins of Rhetorical Logos

Rhetoric and Royalty: Odysseus’ Presentation of the Female Shades in Hades

Mētis, Themis, and the Practice of Epic Speech

It Takes an Empire to Raise a Sophist: An Athens-Centered Analysis of the Oikonomia of Pre-Platonic Rhetoric

Afterword: Persistent Questions in the Historiography of Early Greek Rhetorical Theory

Appendix A: A Timeline of the Life of Gorgias of Leontini

Appendix B: A Summary of Gorgias’ Work and Activity

Appendix C: A New Testimonium of Theodorus Byzantius

Notes

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

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