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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784183603321

Autore

Rademaker Adriaan <1965->

Titolo

Sophrosyne and the rhetoric of self-restraint [[electronic resource] ] : polysemy & persuasive use of an ancient Greek value term / / by Adriaan Rademaker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2005

ISBN

1-280-86763-9

9786610867639

90-474-0698-2

1-4337-0383-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (392 p.)

Collana

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, , 0169-8958 ; ; 259

Disciplina

485

Soggetti

Sōphrosynē (The Greek word)

Greek language - Polysemy

Persuasion (Rhetoric) - History - To 1500

Temperance (Virtue)

Rhetoric, Ancient

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universiteit Leiden, 2004.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-365) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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



how such a semantic description can contribute to the analysis and study of our sources: it investigates how speakers in our texts (ab)use the term to achieve their ends, covering most of the main texts, and culminating in a chapter on the dialogues of Plato.