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Sophrosyne and the Rhetoric of Self-Restraint
Polysemy & Persuasive Use of an Ancient Greek Value Term
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Adriaan Rademaker
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English
Published/Copyright:
2004
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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.
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.
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Adriaan Rademaker, Ph.D. (2004) in Classics, Leiden University, is post-doctoral fellow at Leiden University. His current research concentrates on early Greek ideas about language.
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July 31, 2017
eBook ISBN:
9789047406983
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380
eBook ISBN:
9789047406983
Audience(s) for this book
All those interested in Archaic and Classical Greek language, literature, social history and philosophy.
