The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates offers a sustained
interpretation of the Isocratean corpus, showing that rhetoric is a
language which the author uses to create a political identity for
himself in fourth-century Athens. Dr Too examines how Isocrates'
discourse addresses anxieties surrounding the written word in a
democratic culture which values the spoken word as the privileged
means of political expression. Isocrates makes written culture the
basis for a revisionary Athenian politics and of a rhetoric of
Athenian hegemony. In addition, Isocrates takes issue with the
popular image of the professional teacher in the age of the
sophist, combating the negative stereotype of the greedy sophist
who corrupts the city's youth in his portrait of himself as teacher
of rhetoric. He daringly reinterprets the pedagogue as a figure who
produces a discourse which articulates political authority.
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