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A Commentary on Isocrates' Busiris PDF

241 Pages·2001·11.736 MB·English
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by Niall Livingstone| 2001| 241 pages| 11.736| English

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This volume contains a scholarly commentary on the puzzling work ''Busiris'' - part mythological ''jeu d'esprit'', part rhetorical treatise and part self-promoting polemic - by the Greek educator and rhetorician Isocrates (436-338 BC). The commentary reveals Isocrates' strategies in advertising his own political rhetoric as a middle way between amoral ''sophistic'' education and the abstruse studies of Plato's Academy. Introductory chapters situate ''Busiris'' within the lively intellectual marketplace of 4th-century Athens, showing how the work parodies Plato's ''Republic'', and how its revisionist treatment of the monster-king Busiris reflects Athenian fascination with the ''alien wisdom'' of Egypt. As a whole, the book casts new light both on Isocrates himself, revealed as an agile and witty polemicist, and on the struggle between rhetoric and philosophy from which Hellenism and modern humanities were born.

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Author:Niall Livingstone
Publication Year:2001
ISBN:9004121439
Pages:241
Language:English
File Size:11.736
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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