...Shawn Ramsey In Phaedrus , Plato invokes a mythic exemplum concerning the Egyptian deity Thoth. Though often interpreted as an overt critique of writing, this argument posits Thoth is offered analogically to contrast Plato's rhetorical epistemology with that of the ancient Egyptians. To do so...

... page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2019 Plato dialogical form interrogative structure thought life LIDIA PALUMBO I dialoghi di Platone come figure della coerenza tra pensiero e vita Abstract: The aim of this paper is to show how the dialogical form is an essential...

...John J. Jasso It is a disciplinary commonplace to identify Plato as the enemy of rhetoric. While it is also common to suggest a more complex role for Plato and his dialogues in contemporary rhetorical studies, this is often treated as a revision of his traditional role. In this article, I question...

...Robin Reames This essay argues that Plato's use of narrative conceals within Socrates' explicit rejection of rhetoric an implicit authorial endorsement, manifested in the dialectical and rhetorical failures surrounding Socrates' deliberations over logos . I suggest that Aristotle's Rhetoric...

...Yosef Z. Liebersohn In this article I shall concentrate on ten lines in Plato's Gorgias (449c9–d9) dealing with what has come to be known as “rhetoric's materia question.” By taking Gorgias as a representative of the first stages of rhetoric in ancient Greek thought, and by a close analysis...