...David Lévystone In Plato's early dialogues, the impossibility of talking to the crowd appears as a constitutive element of the opposition between rhetoric and dialectic and raises the understudied question of the role of the audience in Socratic thought. However, Xenophon's Socrates constantly...

... comparison by calling attention to the persuasive artistry of Socrates, notably his use of arguments by comparison to provoke interlocutors without challenging them directly. Understanding and explaining these rhetorical theories of comparison is the primary task of this article. © 2014...

..., be understood as Isocrates' manifesto for moral discourse as opposed to paradoxographic showpieces. © 2013 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved. 2013 Socrates Helen Busiris Theseus paradox Isocratean techne subject matter rhetoric and moral...