Taming democracy : models of political rhetoric in classical Athens / Harvey Yunis
1996, First Edition. Ithaca : Cornell University Press. Near fine paperback copy; wrapper edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #383744
ISBN: 0801427703
Physical description: xv, 316 pages. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-310) and indexes. Contents: I. Athenian Intellectuals Examine Rhetoric and Democracy -- II. The Earliest Criticism of Democratic Deliberation -- III. Thucydides on Periclean Rhetoric and Political Instruction -- IV. Thucydides on the Rhetoric of the Successors -- V. The Premises of Plato's Argument on Political Rhetoric -- VI. Gorgias: The Collapse of Political Discourse -- VII. Phaedrus: Rhetoric Reinvented -- VIII. Laws: Rhetoric, Preambles, and Mass Political Instruction -- IX. Demosthenes: Discourse and Deliberation in Theory and Practice -- Appendix I: More of Plato's Preaching Preambles -- Appendix II: The Authenticity of Demosthenes' Collection of Demegoric Preambles -- Appendix III: Demosthenes, Preambles 28 (29), 33 (34), 34 (35). Subjects: To 146 B.C. Rhetoric, Ancient. Democracy Greece.Rhétorique ancienne.
LITERARY CRITICISM Ancient & Classical.
PHILOSOPHY Political.
Democracy. Politics and government. Rhetoric, Ancient. Retorica. Démocratie Grèce.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Democracy Greece.
Democracy. Politics and government. Rhetoric, Ancient. Rhetoric Political aspects Greece History.
Rhétorique ancienne.
Rhétorique antique. Démocratie Grèce. Democracy Greece.
Rhetoric Political aspects Greece History. Rhetoric, Ancient. Rhetoric, Ancient.
Démocratie Grèce. Rhetoric, Ancient. democracy Greece Athens.
Democracy Greece Athens.
Rhetoric, Ancient. Athens (Greece) Politics and government. Greece Politics and government To 146 B.C. Athens (Greece) Politics and government.
Greece Politics and government To 146 B.C.
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