The Essential Isocrates

Author : Jon D. Mikalson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477325544

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The Essential Isocrates by Jon D. Mikalson Pdf

The Essential Isocrates is a comprehensive introduction to Isocrates, one of ancient Greece’s foremost orators. Jon D. Mikalson presents Isocrates largely in his own words, with original English translations of selections of his writings on his life and times and on morality, religion, philosophy, rhetoric, education, political theory, and Greek and Athenian history. In Mikalson’s treatment, Isocrates receives his due not only as a major thinker but as one whose work has resonated across time, influencing even modern education practices and theory. Isocrates wrote extensively about Athens in the fourth century BCE and before, and his speeches, letters, and essays provide a trove of insights concerning the intellectual, political, and social currents of his time. Mikalson details what we know about Isocrates’s long, eventful, and complicated life, and much can be gleaned on the personal level from his own writings, as Isocrates was one of the most introspective authors of the Classical Period. By collecting the most representative and important passages of Isocrates’s writings, arranging them topically, and placing them in historical context, The Essential Isocrates invites general and expert readers alike to engage with one of antiquity’s most compelling men of ideas.

Author : Isocrates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Athens (Greece)
ISBN : UCBK:B000784519

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Isocrates by Isocrates Pdf

Author : Isocrates,David C. Mirhady,Yun Lee Too
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0292799012

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Isocrates I by Isocrates,David C. Mirhady,Yun Lee Too Pdf

This is the fourth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece series. Planned for publication over several years, the series will present all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries B.C. in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. These translations are especially designed for the needs and interests of today's undergraduates, Greekless scholars in other disciplines, and the general public. Classical oratory is an invaluable resource for the study of ancient Greek life and culture. The speeches offer evidence on Greek moral views, social and economic conditions, political and social ideology, and other aspects of Athenian culture that have been largely ignored: women and family life, slavery, and religion, to name just a few. This volume contains works from the early, middle, and late career of the Athenian rhetorician Isocrates (436-338). Among the translated works are his legal speeches, pedagogical essays, and his lengthy autobiographical defense, Antidosis. In them, he seeks to distinguish himself and his work, which he characterizes as "philosophy," from that of the sophists and other intellectuals such as Plato. Isocrates' identity as a teacher was an important mode of political activity, through which he sought to instruct his students, foreign rulers, and his fellow Athenians. He was a controversial figure who championed a role for the written word in fourth-century politics and thought.

Author : Isocrates
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1021203718

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The Orations and Epistles of Isocrates by Isocrates Pdf

Explore the world of Ancient Greece through the literary genius of Isocrates. This book includes a comprehensive collection of his orations and epistles, offering a fascinating glimpse into the issues of the time and the world of ancient Greek rhetoric. With detailed notes and an introduction that contextualizes the work, this book is a must-have for classics scholars and anyone interested in ancient history and literature. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Isocrates Isocrates,George Norlin,Larue Van Hook
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020793910

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Isocrates by Isocrates Isocrates,George Norlin,Larue Van Hook Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive English translation of the first speeches of the orator Isocrates, including 'To Demonicus', 'To Nicocles', 'Nicocles or The Cyprians', and 'Panegyricus'. The book is aimed at scholars of classical literature and history, as well as anyone interested in the rhetorical and political culture of ancient Greece. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Isocrates
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1020408944

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The Panegyricus Of Isocrates: From The Text Of Bremi. With English Notes by Isocrates Pdf

This classic work of ancient Greek rhetoric, The Panegyricus, offers a fascinating glimpse into the political and cultural life of Athens in the 4th century BCE. With detailed commentary and insightful analysis, this edition of Isocrates' masterpiece is an essential resource for scholars and students of classical literature and history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Isocrates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Isocrates
ISBN : UOM:39015011016535

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Isocrates by Isocrates Pdf

Author : Justin Marc Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567656612

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Why Bíos? On the Relationship Between Gospel Genre and Implied Audience by Justin Marc Smith Pdf

Justin Marc Smith argues that the gospels were intended to be addressed to a wide and varied audience. He does this by considering them to be works of ancient biography, comparative to the Greco-Roman biography. The earliest Christian interpreters of the Gospels did not understand their works to be sectarian documents. Rather, the wider context of Jesus literature in the second and third centuries points toward the broader Christian practice of writing and disseminating literary presentations of Jesus and Jesus traditions as widely as possible. Smith addresses the difficulty in reconstructing the various gospel communities that might lie behind the gospel texts and suggests that the 'all nations' motif present in all four of the canonical gospels suggests an ideal secondary audience beyond those who could be identified as Christian.

Author : Takis Poulakos,David Depew
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292758827

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Isocrates and Civic Education by Takis Poulakos,David Depew Pdf

Civic virtue and the type of education that produces publicly minded citizens became a topic of debate in American political discourse of the 1980s, as it once was among the intelligentsia of Classical Athens. Conservatives such as former National Endowment for the Humanities chairman William Bennett and his successor Lynn Cheney held up the Greek philosopher Aristotle as the model of a public-spirited, virtue-centered civic educator. But according to the contributors in this volume, a truer model, both in his own time and for ours, is Isocrates, one of the preeminent intellectual figures in Greece during the fourth century B.C. In this volume, ten leading scholars of Classics, rhetoric, and philosophy offer a pathfinding interdisciplinary study of Isocrates as a civic educator. Their essays are grouped into sections that investigate Isocrates' program in civic education in general (J. Ober, T. Poulakos) and in comparison to the Sophists (J. Poulakos, E. Haskins), Plato (D. Konstan, K. Morgan), Aristotle (D. Depew, E. Garver), and contemporary views about civic education (R. Hariman, M. Leff). The contributors show that Isocrates' rhetorical innovations carved out a deliberative process that attached moral choices to political questions and addressed ethical concerns as they could be realized concretely. His notions of civic education thus created perspectives that, unlike the elitism of Aristotle, could be used to strengthen democracy.

Author : Isocrates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : English letters
ISBN : 0674994116

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Isocrates in Three Volumes by Isocrates Pdf

The importance of Isocrates for the study of Greek civilisation of the fourth century BCE is indisputable. From 403 to 393 he wrote speeches for Athenian law courts, and then became a teacher of composition for would-be orators. After setting up a school of rhetoric in Chios he returned to Athens and established there a free school of 'philosophia' involving a practical education of the whole mind, character, judgment, and mastery of language. This school had famous pupils from all over the Greek world, such as the historians Ephorus and Theopompus and orators Isaeus, Lycurgus, and Hypereides. Isocrates also wrote in gifted style essays on political questions, his main idea being a united Greece to conquer the Persian empire. Thus in his fine Panegyricus written for the 100th Olympi.

Author : Isocrates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:24405723

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The Evagoras of Isocrates by Isocrates Pdf

Author : Isocrates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019128735

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The Panegyricus of Isocrates by Isocrates Pdf

Author : Omar Swartz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000305227

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The Rise Of Rhetoric And Its Intersection With Contemporary Critical Thought by Omar Swartz Pdf

This book features contemporary critical and Marxist theories of resistance, domination, knowledge, and systems of ideological control. It offers a balanced discussion of classical and modern theories of rhetoric, as well as critical theory.

Author : Isocrates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1752
Category : Greek letters
ISBN : NYPL:33433081621744

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The Orations and Epistles of Isocrates by Isocrates Pdf

Author : D. C. Phillips
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 953 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781483364759

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Encyclopedia of Educational Theory and Philosophy by D. C. Phillips Pdf

Education is a field sometimes beset by theories-of-the-day and with easy panaceas that overpromise the degree to which they can alleviate pressing educational problems. The two-volume Encyclopedia of Educational Theory and Philosophy introduces readers to theories that have stood the test of time and those that have provided the historical foundation for the best of contemporary educational theory and practice. Drawing together a team of international scholars, this invaluable reference examines the global landscape of all the key theories and the theorists behind them and presents them in the context needed to understand their strengths and weaknesses. In addition to interpretations of long-established theories, this work offers essays on cutting-edge research and concise, to-the-point definitions of key concepts, ideas, schools, and figures. Features: Over 300 signed entries by trusted experts in the field are organized into two volumes and overseen by a distinguished General Editor and an international Editorial Board. Entries are followed by cross references and further reading suggestions. A Chronology of Theory within the field of education highlights developments over the centuries; a Reader’s Guide groups entries thematically, and a master Bibliography facilitates further study. The Reader’s Guide, detailed index, and cross references combine for strong search-and-browse capabilities in the electronic version. Available in a choice of print or electronic formats, Encyclopedia of Educational Theory and Philosophy is an ideal reference for anyone interested in the roots of contemporary educational theory.