Sophrosyne and the Rhetoric of Self-restraint - Mnemosyne Supplements: Book 259

Informationen zum Autor Adriaan Rademaker , Ph.D. (2004) in Classics, Leiden University, is post-doctoral fellow at Leiden University. His current research concentrates on early Greek ideas about language. Klappentext This study provides a new description of the semantics of "sophrosyne," and investigates the use of the term as an instrument of persuasion in the main texts from the Archaic and Classical era.

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• Authors: Adriaan Rademaker
• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.12.2004
• EAN: 9789004142510
• ISBN: 978-90-0-414251-0
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 248 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classic; Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classic; Mnemosyne, Supplements
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity