Sophrosyne and the rhetoric of self-restraint : polysemy & persuasive use of an ancient Greek value term /
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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2005
Leiden ; Boston : 2005 |
| Series: | Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288
Mnemosyne, Supplements 259 Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava Supplementum ; 259. Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava Supplementum ; 259. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface; Chapter One Introduction; Chapter Two Homer; Chapter Three Archaic Poetry; Chapter Four Aeschylus; Chapter Five Sophocles; Chapter Six Euripides; Chapter Seven Historiography; Chapter Eight Aristophanes and the Orators; Chapter Nine Preliminary Conclusions: The Meaning of s?f??s??? in Plato's Time: A Synchronic Description; Chapter Ten Plato; References; General Index; Index of Greek Terms; Selective Index of Works and Passages
- Preliminary Material
- INTRODUCTION
- HOMER
- ARCHAIC POETRY
- AESCHYLUS
- SOPHOCLES
- EURIPIDES
- HISTORIOGRAPHY
- ARISTOPHANES AND THE ORATORS
- PRELIMINARY CONCLUSIONS: THE MEANING OF SOPHROSYNE IN PLATO'S TIME: A SYNCHRONIC DESCRIPTION
- PLATO
- REFERENCES
- GENERAL INDEX
- INDEX OF GREEK TERMS
- SELECTIVE INDEX OF WORKS AND PASSAGES
- SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE by H. Pinkster , H.S. Versnel , I.J.F. de Jong and P.H. Schrijvers