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Sophistic
Rhetoric:
Selected Sources
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Primary Texts and Commentaries |
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Lysias. |
Selected Speeches. Ed. Charles Darwin Adams. New York: American Book, 1905. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1970. |
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Sprague, Rosamond Kent, ed. |
The Older Sophists. Translation of Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, ed. by Diels-Kranz, Vaduz: Weidmann. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1972. |
Secondary
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| Ambrose, Z. P. | "Socrates and Prodicus in the Clouds." Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy. Vol. II. Albany: SUNY P, 1983. 129-144. |
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Benjamin, James. |
"Eristic, Dialectic, and Rhetoric." Communication Quarterly 31 (1983): 21–26. |
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Benson, Hugh. |
"A Note on Eristic and the Socratic Elenchus." Journal of the History of Philosophy 27 (1989): 591–599. |
| Consigny, Scott. | "Edward Schiappa's Reading of the Sophists." Rhetoric Review 14 (1996): 253-269. |
| ---. | "Nietzsche's Reading of the Sophists."Rhetoric Review 13 (1994): 5-26. |
| Crowley, Sharon.. | "A Plea for the Revival of Sophistry." Rhetoric Review 7 (1989): 318-334. |
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Enos, Richard. |
Greek Rhetoric Before Aristotle. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland P, 1993. |
| Forrest, W. G. | "An Athenian Generation Gap." Yale Classical Studies 24 (1975): 37-54. |
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Guthrie, W. K. C. |
The Sophists. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1971. |
| Henrichs, A. | "The Sophists and Hellenistic Religion: Prodicus as the Spiritual Father of the Isis Aretalogies." Actes du VIIe Congrès de la Fédération Internationale des Associations d'Etudes classiques. Budapest: Akad. Kiado, 1984. 339-353. |
| ---. | "Two Doxographical Notes: Democritus and Prodicus on Religion." Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 79 (1975): 93-123. |
| Hodges, Karen A. | "Unfolding Sophistic and Humanist Practice through Ingenium." Rhetoric Review 15 (1996): 86-92. |
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Jarratt, Susan C. |
Rereading the Sophists: Classical Rhetoric Reconsidered. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991. |
| Johnstone, Christopher. | "Communicating in Classical Contexts: The Centrality of Delivery." Quarterly Journal of Speech 87 (2001): 121-142. |
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Kerferd, G. B. |
The Sophistic Movement. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1981. |
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Kirby, John T. |
"The 'Great Triangle' in Early Greek Rhetoric and Poetics." Rhetorica 8 (1990): 213–228. |
| Lentz, T. M. | "Writing as Sophistry: From Preservation to Persuasion." Quarterly Journal of Speech 68 (1982): 60-68. |
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Moss, Roger. |
"The Case for Sophistry." Rhetoric Revalued: Papers from the International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Ed. Brian Vickers. Binghamton, NY: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1982. 207–224. |
| Nehamas, Alexander | "Eristic, Antilogic, Sophistic, Dialectic: Plato's Demarcation of Philosophy from Sophistry." History of Philosophy Quarterly 7 (1990): 3-16 |
| Newman, John K. | "Protagoras, Gorgias and the Dialogic Principle." Illinois Classical Studies 11 (1986): 43-61. |
| Poster, Carol. | "Persuasion in an Empty Ontology: The Eleatic Synthesis of Philosophy, Poetry, and Rhetoric." Philosophy & Rhetoric 27 (1994): 277-299. |
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Poulakos, John. |
"Early Changes in Rhetorical Practice and Understanding: From the Sophists to Isocrates." Texte 8 (1989): 307–324. |
| ---. | "Extending and Correcting the Rhetorical Tradition: Aristotle's Perception of the Sophists. Ed. Christopher Lyle Johnstone. Theory, Text, Context: Issues in Greek Rhetoric and Oratory. Albany : State U of New York P, 1996. 45-63. |
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"Gorgias' and Isocrates' Use of the Encomium." Southern Communication Journal 51 (1986): 300–307. |
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"Interpreting Sophistical Rhetoric: A Response to Schiappa." Philosophy & Rhetoric 23 (1990): 218–228. |
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"Rhetoric, the Sophists, and the Possible." Communication Monographs 51 (1984): 215–226. |
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Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1995. |
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"Toward a Sophistic Definition of Rhetoric." Philosophy & Rhetoric 16 (1983): 35–48. |
| Pullman, George L. | "Reconsidering Sophistic Rhetoric in Light of Skeptical Epistemology." Rhetoric Review 13 (1994): 50-68. |
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de Romilly, Jacqueline. |
Magic and Rhetoric in Ancient Greece. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1975. |
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The Great Sophists in Periclean Athens. Oxford: Clarendon, 1992. |
| Rossetti, Livio. | "The Rhetoric of Zeno's Paradoxes." Philosophy & Rhetoric 21 (1988): 145-152. |
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Scenters-Zapico, John. |
"The Case for the Sophists." Rhetoric Review 11 (1993): 352– . |
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Schiappa, Edward. |
"History and Neo-Sophistic Criticism: A Reply to Poulakos." Philosophy & Rhetoric 23 (1990): 307–315. |
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"Neo-Sophistic Rhetorical Criticism or the Historical Reconstruction of Sophistic Doctrines?" Philosophy & Rhetoric 23 (1990): 192–217. |
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Protagoras and Logos: A Study in Greek Philosophy and Rhetoric. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1991. |
| ---. | "Some of My Best Friends Are Sophists: A Response to Scott Consigny." Rhetoric Review 14 (1996): 272-279. |
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Sullivan, Dale. |
"Kairos and the Rhetoric of Belief." Quarterly Journal of Speech 78 (1992): 317–332. |
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Ward, John O. |
"Magic and Rhetoric from Antiquity to the Renaissance: Some Ruminations." Rhetorica 6 (1988): 57–118. |
| Wheeler, E. L. | "Sophistic Interpretations and Greek Treaties." Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 25 (1984): 253-274. |
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Wright, M. R. |
"Presocratics and Sophists." Phronesis 40 (1995): 118– . |