Taming Democracy : : Models of Political Rhetoric in Classical Athens /

Taming Democracy : : Models of Political Rhetoric in Classical Athens / / Harvey Yunis.

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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,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1996
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Rhetoric and Society
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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