Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Cultural Memory: Rereading Plato's Menexenus and Isocrates' Panegyricus

From: Rhetoric Society Quarterly | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: Haskins, Ekaterina V | Copyright information

ABSTRACT.

The rivalry between Plato and Isocrates has begun to receive scholarly attention, primarily because both Plato and Isocrates used the term philosophic to describe their occupation. However, the efforts to distinguish their respective uses and definitions of the term typically ignore the performative dimension of both Plato's and Isocrates' writings and their relationship with other discourses of Athenian public culture. This essay argues that both Plato and Isocrates construc...

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