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Autore |
Rademaker Adriaan <1965-> |
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Titolo |
Sophrosyne and the rhetoric of self-restraint [[electronic resource] ] : polysemy & persuasive use of an ancient Greek value term / / by Adriaan Rademaker |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-86763-9 |
9786610867639 |
90-474-0698-2 |
1-4337-0383-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (392 p.) |
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Collana |
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Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, , 0169-8958 ; ; 259 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Sōphrosynē (The Greek word) |
Greek language - Polysemy |
Persuasion (Rhetoric) - History - To 1500 |
Temperance (Virtue) |
Rhetoric, Ancient |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universiteit Leiden, 2004. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-365) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- HOMER -- ARCHAIC POETRY -- AESCHYLUS -- SOPHOCLES -- EURIPIDES -- HISTORIOGRAPHY -- ARISTOPHANES AND THE ORATORS -- PRELIMINARY CONCLUSIONS: THE MEANING OF SOPHROSYNE IN PLATO’S TIME: A SYNCHRONIC DESCRIPTION -- PLATO -- REFERENCES -- GENERAL INDEX -- INDEX OF GREEK TERMS -- SELECTIVE INDEX OF WORKS AND PASSAGES -- SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE by H. Pinkster , H.S. Versnel , I.J.F. de Jong and P.H. Schrijvers. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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While of paramount importance to Ancient Greek society, sophrosyne , the value of self-restraint, constitutes a notoriously complex concept, and provides the speaker of Ancient Greek with a subtle instrument for verbal persuasion. This study provides a new description of the semantics of sophrosyne in Archaic and Classical Greek, based on a model from the field of cognitive linguistics. Besides, the volume shows |
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