Isocrates and Civic Education

CONTENTS

CONTENTS ix Acknowledgments 1 Introduction david depew and takis poulakos part one: Isocrates and Classical Civic Education 21 1. I, Socrates . . . The Performative Audacity of Isocrates’ Antidosis josiah ober 44 2. Isocrates’ Civic Education and the Question of Doxa takis poulakos part two: Isocrates and the Sophists 69 3. Rhetoric and Civic Education: From the Sophists to Isocrates john poulakos 84 4. Logos and Power in Sophistical and Isocratean Rhetoric ekaterina haskins part three: Isocrates and Plato 107 5. Isocrates’ “Republic” david konstan 125 6. The Education of Athens: Politics and Rhetoric in Isocrates and Plato kathryn morgan part four: Isocrates and Aristotle 157 7. The Inscription of Isocrates into Aristotle’s Practical Philosophy david depew 186 8. Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Civic Education in Aristotle and Isocrates eugene garver part five: Isocrates Then and Now 217 9. Civic Education, Classical Imitation, and Democratic Polity robert hariman 235 10. Isocrates, Tradition, and the Rhetorical Version of Civic Education michael le ff 255 Works Cited 267 Contributors 271 Index ...