A Commentary on Isocrates' Antidosis

By Yun Lee Too

How does one construct a role for oneself in the fourth-century democratic city? This commentary on Isocrates' Antidosis, which includes a full translation as well as an extensive introduction, demonstrates that a rhetorician may do so by assuming roles that subvert many of the conventions invoked by the genre - a non-speaker in a rhetorical community, a rhetorician in a world where rhetorical performativity has derogatory connotations, a philosopher following the trial of Socrates. Moreover, Yun Lee Too demonstrates how the narrative of 'self' in the Antidosis is to be understood as a sophisticated amalgam of literary, rhetorical, philosophical, and legal discourses.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199238073
• ISBN13: 9780199238071
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.5"