A Commentary on Isocrates' Antidosis

by Yun Lee Too

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199238071
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/15/2008
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Yun Lee Too is an independent scholar, formerly Professor in the Department of Classics, Columbia University.

Table of Contents

IntroductionTranslationCommentary