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English translation of one of Plato's least political dialogues has Socrates and Phaedrus discussing many themes: the art and practice of rhetoric, ... More

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The focus of this account is how myth and formal argument in the dialogue Phaedrus complement and reinforce each other in Plato's philosophy. Not ... More

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The focus of this account is how myth and formal argument in the dialogue Phaedrus complement and reinforce each other in Plato's philosophy. Not ... More

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This 1995 book is an investigation into how Plato 'invented' the discipline of philosophy.

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Tejera examines how Platonism--a philosophy imported from outside Plato's dialogues--changed our understanding of the dialogues. In the process they ... More

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"Plato's dialogues frequently criticize traditional Greek myth, yet Plato also integrates myth with his writing. Daniel S. Werner confronts this ... More

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With a masterful sense of the place of rhetoric in both thought and practice and an ear attuned to the clarity, natural simplicity, and charm of ... More

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In Listening to the Logos, Christopher Lyle Johnstone provides an unprecedented comprehensive account of the relationship between speech and wisdom ... More

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In "Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric," Bruce McComiskey achieves three rhetorical goals: he treats a single sophist's rhetorical "techne" (art) ... More

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This series consists of a text without commentary but with a brief apparatus criticus at the foot of each page. The aim of the series remains that of ... More

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Protagoras and Logos brings together in a meaningful synthesis the contributions and rhetoric of the first and most famous of the Older Sophists, ... More

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Poulakos offers a new conceptualization of sophistry, explaining its direction and shape as well as the reasons why Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle ... More

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In the field of philosophy, Plato's view of rhetoric as a potentially treacherous craft has long overshadowed Aristotle's view, which focuses on ... More

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This book is a critically informed challenge to the traditional histories of rhetoric and to the current emphasis on Aristotle and Plato as the most ... More

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In this provocative new book, Edward Schiappa argues that rhetorical theory did not originate with the Sophists in the fifth century B.C.E., but ... More

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Aristotle, Rhetoric II: A Commentary completes the acclaimed work undertaken by the author in his first (1980) volume on Aristotle's Rhetoric. The ... More

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Aristotle, Rhetoric I: A Commentary begins the acclaimed work undertaken by the author, later completed in the second (1988) volume on Aristotle's ... More

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