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List of contents
Part I. Lysias, Isocrates and Plato: Ancient Rhetoric in Athens: 1. Lysias in Athens; 2. Reflections on Lysias and Lysianic rhetoric in the fourth century BCE; 3. Isocrates and his work on rhetoric and philosophy; 4. Isocrates on Socrates; 5. Contemporary reflections on Isocrates and his role in rhetoric and philosophy; Part II. Creating the Ancient Rhetorical Tradition: Dionysius of Halicarnassus in Rome: 6. From Athens to Rome: Lysias, Isocrates, and the transmission of Greek rhetoric and philosophy; 7. Dionysius of Halicarnassus on Lysias, rhetoric and style; 8. Isocrates and philosophy in Dionysius of Halicarnassus' rhetorical writings.
About the author
Laura Viidebaum is an Assistant Professor in Classics at New York University. She has received a distinguished Humboldt Fellowship for research at LMU, Munich. She has previously won a Humanities First Book Colloquium Award at NYU and has been a participant of the Advanced School of Humanities at the International University of Venice and a fellow of the Fondation Hardt in Geneva.
Summary
Examines how different aspects of rhetorical theory gradually came to be associated from Plato's Phaedrus onwards with the two outstanding writers in fourth-century BCE Athens, Lysias and Isocrates, and how in first-century BCE Rome Dionysius of Halicarnassus proposed to unite them to create the foundation for the ancient rhetorical tradition.
