Sophrosyne and the rhetoric of self-restraint : polysemy and persuasive use of an ancient Greek value term /

Sophrosyne and the rhetoric of self-restraint : polysemy and persuasive use of an ancient Greek value term /

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...

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Main Author: Rademaker, Adriaan, 1965-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 259.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288.

Subjects:

Plato > Language.
Sōphrosynē (The Greek word)
Greek language > Polysemy.
Persuasion (Rhetoric) > History > To 1500.
Temperance (Virtue)
Rhetoric, Ancient.

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Call Number: PA430.S66 R33 2005eb

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • INTRODUCTION
  • HOMER
  • ARCHAIC POETRY
  • AESCHYLUS
  • SOPHOCLES
  • EURIPIDES
  • HISTORIOGRAPHY
  • ARISTOPHANES AND THE ORATORS
  • PRELIMINARY CONCLUSIONS: THE MEANING OF SOPHROSYNE IN PLATO'S TIME: A SYNCHRONIC DESCRIPTION
  • PLATO
  • REFERENCES
  • GENERAL INDEX
  • INDEX OF GREEK TERMS
  • SELECTIVE INDEX OF WORKS AND PASSAGES
  • SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE by H. Pinkster , H.S. Versnel , I.J.F. de Jong and P.H. Schrijvers.