Taming democracy : models of political rhetoric in classical Athens

Democracy Rhetoric, Ancient Antikken Aten Politics and government Politikk Retorikk Athens (Greece) Greece
Cornell University Press
1996
EISBN 9781501711374
I. Athenian Intellectuals Examine Rhetoric and Democracy.
II. The Earliest Criticism of Democratic Deliberation.
III. Thucydides on Periclean Rhetoric and Political Instruction.
IV. Thucydides on the Rhetoric of the Successors.
V. The Premises of Plato's Argument on Political Rhetoric.
VI. Gorgias: The Collapse of Political Discourse.
VII. Phaedrus: Rhetoric Reinvented.
VIII. Laws: Rhetoric, Preambles, and Mass Political Instruction.
IX. Demosthenes: Discourse and Deliberation in Theory and Practice.
Appendix I: More of Plato's Preaching Preambles.
Appendix II: The Authenticity of Demosthenes' Collection of Demegoric Preambles.
Appendix III: Demosthenes, Preambles 28 (29), 33 (34), 34 (35).
II. The Earliest Criticism of Democratic Deliberation.
III. Thucydides on Periclean Rhetoric and Political Instruction.
IV. Thucydides on the Rhetoric of the Successors.
V. The Premises of Plato's Argument on Political Rhetoric.
VI. Gorgias: The Collapse of Political Discourse.
VII. Phaedrus: Rhetoric Reinvented.
VIII. Laws: Rhetoric, Preambles, and Mass Political Instruction.
IX. Demosthenes: Discourse and Deliberation in Theory and Practice.
Appendix I: More of Plato's Preaching Preambles.
Appendix II: The Authenticity of Demosthenes' Collection of Demegoric Preambles.
Appendix III: Demosthenes, Preambles 28 (29), 33 (34), 34 (35).
