Creating the Ancient Rhetorical Tradition

Laura Viidebaum

doi:10.1017/9781108873956

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Laura Viidebaum, New York University

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: November 2021
Print publication year:: 2021
Online ISBN:: 9781108873956
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108873956
Creative Commons:: This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses

Subjects:: Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature, Literary Theory
Series:: Cambridge Classical Studies

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This book explores the history of rhetorical thought and examines the gradual association of different aspects of rhetorical theory with two outstanding fourth-century BCE writers: Lysias and Isocrates. It highlights the parallel development of the rhetorical tradition that became understood, on the one hand, as a domain of style and persuasive speech, associated with the figure of Lysias, and, on the other, as a kind of philosophical enterprise which makes significant demands on moral and political education in antiquity, epitomized in the work of Isocrates. There are two pivotal moments in which the two rhetoricians were pitted against each other as representatives of different modes of cultural discourse: Athens in the fourth century BCE, as memorably portrayed in Plato's Phaedrus, and Rome in the first century BCE when Dionysius of Halicarnassus proposes to create from the united Lysianic and Isocratean rhetoric the foundation for the ancient rhetorical tradition. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

‘This book is a must-read for anyone wrestling with Plato’s relationship with rhetoric (a perennial vexation), anyone intrigued by Lysias’s unlikely tenacity (a minor feeling, perhaps), anyone longing for Isocrates to be taken seriously (a periodic desire), or anyone who has decided they can no longer put off reading more about Dionysius of Halicarnassus (an increasingly popular judgment).’

Michele Kennerly Source: Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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