num_pages: 128
description: This volume considers Isocrates' educational programme from the perspective of rhetorical theory and explores its relation to sociopolitical practices. Illumining Isocrates' efforts to reformulate sophistic conceptions of rhetoric on the basis of the intellectual and political debates of his times, Takis Poulakos contends that the father of humanistic studies and rival educator of Plato crafted a version of rhetoric that gave the art an important new role in the ethical and political activities of Athens.
language: English
title: Speaking for the Polis: Isocrates' Rhetorical Education
titlecomplete: Speaking for the Polis: Isocrates' Rhetorical Education
characters: Isocrates
ratings_count: 7
places: Ancient Greece
series: Studies in Rhetoric & Communication
publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr