VI. Gorgias: The Collapse of Political Discourse

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Preface xi
5. Abbreviations of Ancient Authors and Texts xiii
6. I. Athenian Intellectuals Examine Rhetoric and Democracy 1
7. II. The Earliest Criticism of Democratic Deliberation 36
8. III. Thucydides on Periclean Rhetoric and Political Instruction 59
9. IV. Thucydides on the Rhetoric of the Successors 87
10. V. The Premises of Plato's Argument on Political Rhetoric 117
11. VI. Gorgias: The Collapse of Political Discourse 136
12. VII. Phaedrus: Rhetoric Reinvented 172
13. VIII. Laws: Rhetoric, Preambles, and Mass Political Instruction 211
14. IX. Demosthenes: Discourse and Deliberation in Theory and Practice 237
15. Postscript: Further Questions 278
16. Appendix I: More of Plato's Preaching Preambles 283
17. Appendix II: The Authenticity of Demosthenes' Collection of Demegoric Preambles 287
18. Appendix III: Demosthenes, Preambles 28 (29), 33 (34), 34 (35) 290
19. Bibliography 293
20. General Index 311
21. Index of Important Passages 315