A commentary on Isocrates' Busiris /

This volume contains the first scholarly commentary on the puzzling work Busiris - part mythological jeu d'esprit , part rhetorical treatise and part self-promoting polemic - by the Greek educator and rhetorician Isocrates (436-338 BC). The commentary reveals Isocrates' strategies in adver...

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Main Author: Livingstone, Niall.

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 223.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288.

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505 0 0 |t Preliminary Material /  |r Niall Livingstone --   |t INTRODUCTION /  |r Niall Livingstone --   |t COMMENTARY /  |r Niall Livingstone --   |t BIBLIOGRAPHY /  |r Niall Livingstone --   |t INDEX LOCORUM /  |r Niall Livingstone --   |t INDEX GRAECITATIS ISOCRATICAE /  |r Niall Livingstone --   |t INDEX NOMINUM ET RERUM POTIORUM /  |r Niall Livingstone --   |t SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE /  |r H. Pinkster , H.W. Pleket , C.J. Ruijgh , D.M. Schenkeveld , P.H. Schrijvers and S.R. Slings. 
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