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Sophrosyne and the rhetoric of self-restraint : polysemy & persuasive use of an ancient Greek value term / by Adriaan Rademaker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rademaker, Adriaan, 1965-
- Series:
- Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 259.
- Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 0169-8958 ; 259
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sōphrosynē (The Greek word).
- Greek language--Polysemy.
- Greek language.
- Persuasion (Rhetoric)--History--To 1500.
- Persuasion (Rhetoric).
- Temperance (Virtue).
- Rhetoric, Ancient.
- Plato--Language.
- Plato.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (392 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- While of paramount importance to Ancient Greek society, sophrosyne , the value of self-restraint, constitutes a notoriously complex concept, and provides the speaker of Ancient Greek with a subtle instrument for verbal persuasion. This study provides a new description of the semantics of sophrosyne in Archaic and Classical Greek, based on a model from the field of cognitive linguistics. Besides, the volume shows how such a semantic description can contribute to the analysis and study of our sources: it investigates how speakers in our texts (ab)use the term to achieve their ends, covering most of the main texts, and culminating in a chapter on the dialogues of Plato.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universiteit Leiden, 2004.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-365) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-86763-9
- 9786610867639
- 90-474-0698-2
- 1-4337-0383-1
- OCLC:
- 191950170
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789047406983 DOI
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