Y. Lee Too, A Commentary on Isocrates' Antidosis

Yun Lee Too, A Commentary on Isocrates' Antidosis

OxfordUniversity Press

Price: £50.00 (Hardback)

ISBN-13: 978-0-19-923807-1

264 pages, 216x138 mm

Description de l'éditeur

How does one construct a role for oneself in the fourth-century democratic city? This commentary on Isocrates' Antidosis , which includes a full translation as well as an extensive introduction, demonstrates that a rhetorician may do so by assuming roles that subvert many of the conventions invoked by the genre - a non-speaker in a rhetorical community, a rhetorician in a world where rhetorical performativity has derogatory connotations, a philosopher following the trial of Socrates. Moreover, Yun Lee Too demonstrates how the narrative of 'self' in the Antidosis is to be understood as a sophisticated amalgam of literary, rhetorical, philosophical, and legal discourses.

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Introduction

Translation

Commentary

Authors, editors, and contributors

Yun Lee Too, Independent scholar, formerly Professor in the Department of Classics, ColumbiaUniversity