Promoting a new kind of education : : Greek and Roman philosophical protreptic / / by Daniel Markovich.

• Superior document: International studies in the history of rhetoric, volume 16
• VerfasserIn: Markovich, Daniel, Ph.D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: International studies in the history of rhetoric ; v. 16.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 328 pages).

Authors of Greek and Roman philosophical protreptics imitate a kind of exhortation initially associated with Socrates, creating a thread of typically protreptic intertextuality that classifies protreptic as a genre of philosophical literature. Tracing this intertextuality from the Socratic authors t...

Table of Contents

• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• 1 Introduction: A New Way of Living
• 1 From Socratic Protreptic to Philosophical Protreptic
• 2 Philosophical Protreptic as a Form of Deliberation
• 3 Reading Philosophical Protreptic
• 2 Entering the Dialogue: Socrates and the Socratic Authors
• 1 Aeschines of Sphettos
• 2 Plato
• 3 Xenophon
• 4 Conclusions
• 3 Philosophy as Theoretical Observation: Aristotle's Protreptic
• 1 The Reconstruction of Aristotle's Protreptic
• 2 The Content of Aristotle's Protreptic
• 3 Aristotle's Dialogue with Plato
• 4 Aristotle and Isocrates
• 5 Aristotle and His Audiences
• 6 Conclusions
• 4 Philosophy as Therapy: Hellenistic Authors
• 1 Expanding the Audience
• 2 Epicurus: Happiness for Everyone
• 3 Early and Middle Stoic Authors
• 4 The New Academy: Philo of Larissa
• 5 Middle Platonism: Eudorus of Alexandria
• 6 Conclusions
• 5 Philosophy and Politics: Roman Paideia
• 1 Greek Philosophy in Rome
• 2 Lucretius: A View from Above
• 3 Cicero: Platonic Politics
• 4 Seneca: A Fellow Convalescent
• 5 Conclusions
• 6 Socrates in Rome: Greek Authors of the Empire
• 1 Being a Philosopher in the Period of the Second Sophistic
• 2 Musonius Rufus: Lucius's Socrates
• 3 Epictetus: Arrian's Socrates
• 4 Dio of Prusa: Socrates in Exile
• 5 Lucian of Samosata: Protreptic under a Comic and Satirical Mask
• 6 Excursus: Exhortations to Medicine and to Christianity
• 7 Conclusions
• 7 The Unity of Philosophy Reclaimed: Neoplatonism
• 1 Neoplatonic Tendencies
• 2 Iamblichus: A Protreptic Anthology
• 3 Themistius: Philosophy and Rhetoric Reconciled
• 4 Boethius: A Protreptic to Himself
• 5 Conclusions
• Conclusions
• 1 Typical Arguments
• 2 The Protreptic Worldview and The Philosophy of Education
• 3 Rhetorical Strategies
• 4 Rhetorical Goals
• 5 Philosophical Protreptic and Other Types of Philosophical Literature
• Epilogue
• Appendix: Examples of Philosophical Protreptic
• Editions, Commentaries, and Translations
• Secondary Bibliography
• Indices.