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Athens, the Unjust Student of Rhetoric: A Dramatic Historical Interpretation of Plato's Gorgias
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At a time when Athenians were still trying to explain the loss of their empire, Plato's Gorgias-through its dramatic structure and themes, through its allusions to critical moments in the Peloponnesian War, and through its literary engagements with Thucydides, Isocrates, and Polycrates challenged both the actuality and legitimacy of that power as well as the rhetoric with which democratic Athenians rationalized their former tyranny. By portraying imperial Athens as an unjust student of sophis...
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Gorgias: Sophist and Artist.(Book Review)
Argumentation and Advocacy
; By Scott Consigny. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001; pp. xiii + 242. $39.95. Interest in the Sophists as teachers and theorists of argumentative discourse continues to grow among scholars in Communication Studies, Classics, and English. In recent years, book-length studies have
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The myth of the last judgment in the Gorgias.(Critical Essay)
The Review of Metaphysics
; I AT THE END OF A VERY LONG DISCUSSION with interlocutors who grow angrier and angrier with him, Socrates tells a story about the judgment of souls in the afterlife. He addresses the myth to Callicles, his final interlocutor, in the explicitly stated belief that the young man will not take it any
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Was Socrates a democrat? Melissa Lane looks at the reputation of Socrates, both at the time of his death and in subsequent debates about democracy.
History Today
; BORN TO A HUMBLE ARTISAN family in fifth-century democratic Athens, Socrates (469-399 BC) attracted a circle of prominent disciples, with whom he pursued the question of how to live well. His conversations with all-comers in search of knowledge, on the grounds that `the unexamined life is not worth
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The Trial of Socrates.
The Economist (US)
; SOCRATES died a martyr to free speech. Yet the Athenian state that condemned him to death, in 399 BC, was a democracy, and Socrates no democrat. It is small wonder that Professor I.F. Stone, a crusader in the cause of freedom of speech and thought, should return in his retirement to this most
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The trial of Socrates.
The Nation
; THE TRIAL OF SOCRATES From this altogether engaging do-it-yourself detective kit, philological meander and owner's manual on free speech and class animus in ancient Athens, we learn as much about I.F. Stone as we do about Socrates. If Socrates felt himself to be too good for his world and almost
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SOCRATES IN THE PHAEDO: KNIGHT OF FAITH
Philosophy Today
; No, Socrates is the only person who solved the problem: he took everything, everything, with him to the grave. Marvelous Socrates you kept the highest enthusiasm closed up airtight in the most eminent reflection and sagacity, kept it for eternity-you took everything along. Therefore the professors
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FISHBURNE DEAD ON AS SOCRATES
The Boston Globe
; As he struggles to keep his clenched fists off of other people's bodies, Socrates Fortlow is not your average hero. Ten months out of an 18-year jail stint for rape and murder, he's just trying to slide through his days peacefully, looking for a supermarket job so he no longer has to collect cans
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The Seductions of Socrates.
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
; Socrates died 2,400 years ago this June. More precisely, he was executed, a criminal condemned on a capital charge. How seriously Athens took her philosophers! It fills the modern scholar with envy more than dread, that one could die for such a cause. The formal charge that cost Socrates his life--
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SOCRATES
The Sunday Herald
; 469-399 BC, Greek philosopher of Athens. Famous for viewing philosophy as a pursuit proper and necessary to all intelligent men. 1954 - Brazilian midfield legend who played in 1982 and 1986 World Cups. A noted intellectual, qualified doctor and a heavy smoker, he arrives in Britain tomorrow to play
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Socratic questions for today's society; The Independent Archive 15 September 1988 Peter Jenkins devotes his column to the American journalist I. F. Stone's new book `The Trial of Socrates'
The Independent - London
; AN EVENT in the year 399 BC shook I. F. Stone to his Jeffersonian core, horrified him. "How could the trial of Socrates have happened in so free a society? How could Athens have been so untrue to itself?" These were the questions which occurred to him when, retiring from journalism, he embarked on
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