Taming Democracy : : Models of Political Rhetoric in Classical Athens / / Harvey Yunis.
How does one speak to a large, diverse mass of ordinary, sovereign citizens and persuade them to render wise decisions? For Thucydides, Plato, and Demosthenes, who observed classical Athenian democracy in action, this was an urgent question. Harvey Yunis looks at how these three—historian, philosoph...
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Yunis, Harvey, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Taming Democracy : Models of Political Rhetoric in Classical Athens / Harvey Yunis. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©1996 1 online resource (336 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Rhetoric and Society Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Abbreviations of Ancient Authors and Texts -- 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 -- Postscript: Further Questions -- 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) -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Important Passages restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star How does one speak to a large, diverse mass of ordinary, sovereign citizens and persuade them to render wise decisions? For Thucydides, Plato, and Demosthenes, who observed classical Athenian democracy in action, this was an urgent question. Harvey Yunis looks at how these three—historian, philosopher, politician respectively—explored the instructive potential of political rhetoric as a means of "taming democracy," Plato's metaphor for controlling the fractious demos through language. Yunis offers new insights into the ideas of the three thinkers: Thucydides' bipolar model of Periclean versus demagogic rhetoric; Plato's engagement with political rhetoric in the Gorgias, the Phaedrus, and the Laws; and Demosthenes' attempt both to instruct and to persuade his political audience. Yunis illuminates both the concrete historical problem of political deliberation in Athens and the intellectual and literary responses that the problem evoked. Few, if any, other books on classical Athens afford such a combination of perspectives from history, drama, philosophy, and politics. Writing with unusual clarity and cogency, Yunis translates all texts and explains the relevant issues. His book can profitably be read by anyone concerned with the issues at the heart of classical and contemporary democracy. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) History. HISTORY / Ancient / Greece. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 9783110536171 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501711374 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501711374 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501711374/original |
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