Listening to the Logos - Speech and the Coming of Wisdom in Ancient Greece

Informationen zum Autor Christopher Lyle Johnstone is an associate professor of rhetoric and basic course director in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University. A specialist in rhetoric and philosophy, communication ethics, and Greek rhetorical theory, Johnstone is the editor of Theory, Text, Context: Issues in Greek Rhetoric and Oratory. His articles and essays have appeared in the Encyclopedia of Rhetoric, Philosophy and Rhetoric, the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Advances in the History of Rhetoric and in several edited volumes. Klappentext An exploration of the role of language arts in forming and expressing wisdom from Homer to Aristotle Zusammenfassung Offers an account of the relationship between speech and wisdom across almost four centuries of evolving ancient Greek thought and teachings. This book focuses on accounts of logos and wisdom in the surviving writings and teachings of Homer and Hesiod! the Presocratics! the Sophists and Socrates! Isocrates and Plato! and Aristotle.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Lyle Johnstone
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2009
• EAN: 9781570038549
• ISBN: 978-1-57003-854-9
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Studies in Rhetoric/Communication; Studies in Rhetoric and Commun; Studies in Rhetoric/Communication; Studies in Rhetoric and Commun; Studies in Rhetoric & Communic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries