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A Commentary on Isocrates' Antidosis

By Yun Lee Too

Book information

Publisher
OUP OXFORD
Year
2008
ISBN
0199238073, 9780199238071
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6147253 bytes)
Pages
253\264
Time added
2021-05-19 16:34:38

Description

How does one construct a role for oneself in the fourth-century democratic city? This commentary on Isocrates' Antidosis, which includes a full translation as well as an extensive introduction, demonstrates that a rhetorician may do so by assuming roles that subvert many of the conventions invoked by the genre - a non-speaker in a rhetorical community, a rhetorician in a world where rhetorical performativity has derogatory connotations, a philosopher following the trial of Socrates. Moreover, Yun Lee Too demonstrates how the narrative of 'self' in the Antidosis is to be understood as a sophisticated amalgam of literary, rhetorical, philosophical, and legal discourses.

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