The Great Sophists in Periclean Athens

by: de Romilly, J.

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The Great sophists in Periclean Athens
Author:Jacqueline De Romilly

Summary:The arrival of the sophists in Athens in the middle of the 5th century BC was an intellectual event of great importance. Professor de Romilly investigates the success of the Sophists' teaching and evaluates the reaction against them, in the context of the culture of classical Athens.

Contents:
The rise and success of the Sophists; a new teaching; rhetorical education; the doctrines of the Sophists; a tabula rasa; the dangers of the tabula rasa; immoralism; reconstruction on the basis of the tabula rasa; recovering the virtues; politics.

The Great Sophists in Periclean Athens

by: de Romilly, J.

• ISBN-13: 9780198242345 / 978-0-19-824234-5
• ISBN-03: 0198242344 / 0-19-824234-4
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992

Price: 71,60 EURO

1 copy in stock