"This book is a study of the literary strategies which the first professional philosophers used to market their respective disciplines. Philosophers of fourth-century BCE Athens developed the emerging genre of the "protreptic" (literally, "turning" or "converting"). Simply put, …
Panegyricus ; and, To Nicocles
by Isocrates, Isocrates, Usher, Stephen
fromClassical texts
Panegyricus ; and, To Nicocles
by Isocrates, Isocrates, Usher, Stephen
fromClassical texts
"Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle presents Isocrates' vision of discourse as a worthy rival, rather than a mere precursor, of Aristotle's Rhetoric. Casting Isocrates and Aristotle as opponents in a debate over the character, resources, and ends of rhetorical education,…