A Commentary on Isocrates' Antidosis

ISBN-13: 9780199238071 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 264 str.

Yun Lee Too

Opis

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.

O autorze

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