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Shows how Isocrates used writing to provide a model of political engagement distinct from that of his own contemporaries.

Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek --- Political oratory --- Rhetoric, Ancient. --- Oratory, Ancient. --- Parliamentary oratory --- Political speaking --- Oratory --- Politics, Practical --- Public speaking --- Rhetoric --- Ancient rhetoric --- Classical languages --- Greek language --- Greek rhetoric --- Latin language --- Latin rhetoric --- History and criticism. --- Political aspects --- Isocrates --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Athens (Greece) --- Politics and government. --- Isokrat --- Isokratēs --- Isocrate --- Yi-suo-ke-la-di --- Izokrates --- Ἰσοκράτης

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This book offers a sustained interpretation of the Isocratean corpus, showing that rhetoric is a language which the author uses to create a political identity for himself in fourth-century Athens. Dr Too examines how Isocrates' discourse addresses anxieties surrounding the written word in a democratic culture which values the spoken word as the privileged means of political expression. Isocrates makes written culture the basis for a revisionary Athenian politics and of a rhetoric of Athenian hegemony. In addition, Isocrates takes issue with the popular image of the professional teacher in the age of the sophist, combatting the negative stereotype of the greedy sophist who corrupts the city's youth in his portrait of himself as teacher of rhetoric. He daringly reinterprets the pedagogue as a figure who produces a discourse which articulates political authority.

Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek --- Political oratory --- Rhetoric, Ancient. --- Oratory, Ancient. --- History and criticism. --- Isocrates --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Athens (Greece) --- Politics and government. --- -Political oratory --- -Rhetoric, Ancient --- Oratory, Ancient --- Classical languages --- Greek language --- Greek rhetoric --- Latin language --- Latin rhetoric --- Parliamentary oratory --- Political speaking --- Oratory --- Politics, Practical --- Public speaking --- Rhetoric --- Greek orations --- Greek speeches --- History and criticism --- Political aspects --- -Criticism and interpretation --- -Politics and government --- Rhetoric, Ancient --- Eloquence antique --- Eloquence politique --- Rhétorique ancienne --- Discours grecs --- Histoire et critique --- Criticism and interpretation --- Critique et interprétation --- Athènes (Grèce) --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Ancient rhetoric --- Isokrat --- Isokratēs --- Isocrate --- Yi-suo-ke-la-di --- Izokrates --- Ἰσοκράτης --- Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek - History and criticism. --- Political oratory - Greece - Athens.