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Harvey Yunis

Taming Democracy - Models of Political Rhetoric in Classical Athens

English · Hardback

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Summary

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...

Product details

Authors	Harvey Yunis
Publisher	Cornell University Press

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	18.01.1996

EAN	9780801427701
ISBN	978-0-8014-2770-1
No. of pages	336
Dimensions	152 mm x 229 mm x 28 mm
Weight	660 g
Series	Rhetoric and Society Rhetoric & Society
Subject	Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies

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