The Great Sophists in Periclean Athens
The arrival of the Sophists in Athens in the middle of the fifth century B.C. was a major intellectual event, for they brought with them a new method of teaching founded on rhetoric and bold doctrines which broke away from tradition. In this book de Romilly investigates the reasons for the...
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The arrival of the Sophists in Athens in the middle of the fifth century B.C. was a major intellectual event, for they brought with them a new method of teaching founded on rhetoric and bold doctrines which broke away from tradition. In this book de Romilly investigates the reasons for the initial success of the Sophists and the reaction against them, in the context of the culture and civilization of classical Athens.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780198238072 (019823807X)
Publish date: July 9th 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 280
Edition language: English
A stellar book.Anything by de Romilly is worth reading -- This one is especially good:http://www.amazon.fr/loi-dans-pensée-grecque/dp/2251441875/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1286821337&sr=1-2For anyone interested in the Sophistic movement, she is much better and more reliable than Guthrie
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