Taming Democracy: Models of Political Rhetoric in Classical Athens - Brossura

Yunis, Harvey

 
9780801483585: Taming Democracy: Models of Political Rhetoric in Classical Athens
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ISBN 10: 0801483581 ISBN 13: 9780801483585
Casa editrice: Cornell Univ Pr, 1996

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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, philosopher, politician respectively—explored the instructive potential of political rhetoric as a means of "taming democracy," Plato's metaphor for controlling the fractious demos through language. Yunis offers new insights into the ideas of the three thinkers: Thucydides' bipolar model of Periclean versus demagogic rhetoric; Plato's engagement with political rhetoric in the Gorgias, the Phaedrus, and the Laws; and Demosthenes' attempt both to instruct and to persuade his political audience. Yunis illuminates both the concrete historical problem of political deliberation in Athens and the intellectual and literary responses that the problem evoked. Few, if any, other books on classical Athens afford such a combination of perspectives from history, drama, philosophy, and politics. Writing with unusual clarity and cogency, Yunis translates all texts and explains the relevant issues. His book can profitably be read by anyone concerned with the issues at the heart of classical and contemporary democracy.

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Harvey Yunis is Associate Professor of Classics at Rice University.



Harvey Yunis is Associate Professor of Classics at Rice University.

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Editore
Cornell Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
1996
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0801483581
ISBN 13 
9780801483585
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
336
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

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9780801427701: Taming Democracy: Models of Political Rhetoric in Classical Athens

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ISBN 10:  0801427703 ISBN 13:  9780801427701
Casa editrice: Cornell Univ Pr, 1996
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