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Author Rademaker, Adriaan, 1965-

Title Sophrosyne and the rhetoric of self-restraint : polysemy & persuasive use of an ancient Greek value term / by Adriaan Rademaker
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 375 pages) : illustrations
Series Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 0169-8958 ; 259
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 259. 0169-8958
Contents Preface; Chapter One Introduction; Chapter Two Homer; Chapter Three Archaic Poetry; Chapter Four Aeschylus; Chapter Five Sophocles; Chapter Six Euripides; Chapter Seven Historiography; Chapter Eight Aristophanes and the Orators; Chapter Nine Preliminary Conclusions: The Meaning of s?f??s??? in Plato's Time: A Synchronic Description; Chapter Ten Plato; References; General Index; Index of Greek Terms; Selective Index of Works and Passages
Summary This study provides a new description of the semantics of sophrosyne, and investigates the use of the term as an instrument of persuasion in the main texts from the Archaic and Classical era
Notes Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universiteit Leiden, 2004
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-365) and indexes
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Subject Plato -- Language
SUBJECT Plato fast
Subject Sōphrosynē (The Greek word)
Greek language -- Polysemy
Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500
Temperance (Virtue)
Rhetoric, Ancient.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Ancient Languages.
Language and languages
Persuasion (Rhetoric)
Rhetoric, Ancient
Sōphrosynē (The Greek word)
Temperance (Virtue)
Grieks.
Semantiek.
Polysemie.
Zelfbeheersing.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005297393
ISBN 9789047406983
9047406982
1433703831
9781433703836
9789004142510
9004142517