Listening to the Logos: Speech and the Coming of Wisdom in Ancient Greece

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Listening to the Logos STUDIES IN RHETORIC/COMMUNICATION Thomas W. Benson, Series Editor LISTENING to the LOGOS Speech and the Coming of Wisdom in Ancient Greece CHRISTOPHER LYLE JOHNSTONE THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS © 2009 University of South Carolina Cloth edition published by the University of South Carolina Press, 2009 Ebook edition published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press, 2012 www.sc.edu/uscpress 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The Library of Congress has cataloged the cloth edition as follows: Johnstone, Christopher Lyle, 1947– Listening to the logos : speech and the coming of wisdom in ancient Greece / Christopher Lyle Johnstone. p. cm. — (Studies in rhetoric/communication) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-57003-854-9 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Logos (Philosophy) 2. Philosophy, Ancient. 3. Rhetoric, Ancient. I. Title. B187.L6J635 2009 180—dc22 2009021900 ISBN 978-1-61117-175-4 (ebook) To my maternal grandfather, Robert I. Plomert, who encouraged me to ask questions. He was the wisest person I ever knew in real life. Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life, wherein as in a firmament, the nature of Justice, Truth, Love, Freedom, arise and shine. This universal soul he calls Reason: it is not mine, or thine, or his, but we are its property. . . . Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature” ...