Laura Viidebaum

Creating the Ancient Rhetorical Tradition

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 501g
• ISBN-13: 9781108836562
• ISBN-10: 1108836569
• Artikelnr.: 62434896

Autorenporträt

Laura Viidebaum is an Assistant Professor in Classics at New York University. She has received a distinguished Humboldt Fellowship for research at LMU, Munich. She has previously won a Humanities First Book Colloquium Award at NYU and has been a participant of the Advanced School of Humanities at the International University of Venice and a fellow of the Fondation Hardt in Geneva.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Lysias, Isocrates and Plato: Ancient Rhetoric in Athens: 1. Lysias
in Athens; 2. Reflections on Lysias and Lysianic rhetoric in the fourth
century BCE; 3. Isocrates and his work on rhetoric and philosophy; 4.
Isocrates on Socrates; 5. Contemporary reflections on Isocrates and his
role in rhetoric and philosophy; Part II. Creating the Ancient Rhetorical
Tradition: Dionysius of Halicarnassus in Rome: 6. From Athens to Rome:
Lysias, Isocrates, and the transmission of Greek rhetoric and philosophy;
7. Dionysius of Halicarnassus on Lysias, rhetoric and style; 8. Isocrates
and philosophy in Dionysius of Halicarnassus' rhetorical writings.