Gorgias’ and isocrates’ use of the encomium

Southern Speech Communication Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1986, Pages 300-307

  Poulakos, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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EID: 61449090897     PISSN: 03618269     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10417948609372668     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Ralph Cohen, ed., New Directions in Literary History (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974)
2. For a more extensive treatment of these works, see my “Gorgias’ Encomium to Helen and the Defense of Rhetoric,” Rhetorica, 1 (1983): 1-16
3. “Argument, Practicality, and Eloquence in Isocrates’ Helen,” Rhetorica, 4 (1986), 1-19
4. Isocrates III, trans. Larue Van Hook (London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1968). Subsequent references are to this edition
5. References to Gorgias’ texts are from Rosamond Kent Sprague, ed., The Older Sophists (Columbia, SC.: South Carolina University Press, 1972)
6. For the conventional topoi of praise, see Theodore C. Burgess, “Epideictic Literature,” in Studies in Classical Philology (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1902) 102-166
7. W. K. C. Guthrie, The Sophists (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971) 226-249
8. E. R. Dodds, The Ancient Concept of Progress and other Essays on Greek Literature and Belief (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1973) 92-105
9. See Gorgias’ fragments A 2-4 in Sprague
10. For a thorough discussion of this tradition, see Frank J. Grotten, Jr., “The Tradition of the Helen Legend in Greek Literature.” Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Princeton University, 1955
11. Most standard topoi of praise are illustrated in the encomium to Theseus (23-37)
12. For the historical situation to which Isocrates was responding, see George Kennedy “Isocrates’ Encomium of Helen-, a Panhellenic Document,” Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 89 (1958): 77-83
13. For the place of argument in the rhetoric of the age of the Sophists, see Friedrich Solmsen, Intellectual Experiments of the Greek Enlightenment (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975) 10-46
14. Werner Jaeger, Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture, vol. 3, trans. Gilbert Highet (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970) 46-105