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Isocrates: v. 2 by Isocrates 9780674992528
Booksplease Price: £25.31The sophisticated schoolmaster.The importance of Isocrates for the study of Greek civilization of the fourth century BC is indisputable. From 403 to 393 he wrote speeches for Athenian law courts,... -
The Orations and Epistles of Isocrates by Isocrates 9780371310755
Booksplease Price: £19.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371310755Author IsocratesFormat PaperbackPage Count 457Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher HardPress... -
The Orations and Epistles of Isocrates by Isocrates 9780371600825
Booksplease Price: £19.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371600825Author IsocratesFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher HardPress Ltd -
Greek Orators III: Isocrates, Panegyricus and Ad Nicolem Isocrates 9780856684142
RRP: £30.29Booksplease Price: £29.01Two contrasting works, both in style and content, illustrate the versatility of Isocrates, the most accomplished writer of polished periodic Greek prose. The Panegyricus is a patriotic work of... -
Works: v. 1 by Isocrates
Booksplease Price: £25.31The sophisticated schoolmaster.The importance of Isocrates for the study of Greek civilization of the fourth century BC is indisputable. From 403 to 393 he wrote speeches for Athenian law courts, and... -
Isocrates and Civic Education by Takis Poulakos
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Civic virtue and the type of education that produces publicly minded citizens became a topic of debate in American political discourse of the 1980s, as it once was among the intelligentsia of... -
The Essential Isocrates by Jon D. Mikalson
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.53The Essential Isocrates is a comprehensive introduction to Isocrates, one of ancient Greece's foremost orators. Jon D. Mikalson presents Isocrates largely in his own words, with original English... -
Isocrates I by David C. Mirhady
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36This is the fourth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece series. Planned for publication over several years, the series will present all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth... -
Isocrates II by Terry L. Papillon 9780292702462
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.66This is the seventh volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by... -
A Commentary on Isocrates' Antidosis by Yun Lee Too 9780199238071
RRP: £132.50Booksplease Price: £110.15How does one construct a role for oneself in the fourth-century democratic city? This commentary on Isocrates' Antidosis , which includes a full translation as well as an extensive introduction,... -
History of the Literature of Ancient Greece: to the Period of Isocrates by Müller Müller 9780461477306
Booksplease Price: £21.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461477306Author Müller MüllerFormat PaperbackPage Count 562Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher... -
The Theory and Practice of Life: Isocrates and the Philosophers by Tarik Wareh 9780674067134
Booksplease Price: £23.25The Theory and Practice of Life is a study of the literary culture within which the works, schools, and careers of Plato, Aristotle, and contemporary Greek intellectuals took shape. It focuses on the... -
The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates: Text, Power, Pedagogy by Yun Lee Too 9780521124522
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £40.09The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates offers a sustained interpretation of the Isocratean corpus, showing that rhetoric is a language which the author uses to create a political identity for himself... -
History of the Literature of Ancient Greece: to the Period of Isocrates by Müller Müller 9780461423594
Booksplease Price: £21.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461423594Author Muller MullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 568Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher... -
Isocrates ›Peri tou zeugous‹: An Encomium of Alcibiades Evangelos Alexiou 9783112227633
RRP: £109.50Booksplease Price: £70.74The legendary Alcibiades, the renowned Athenian general, cut a charismatic yet enigmatic figure, glorious and provocative, attractive and ambiguous. Isocrates’ Peri tou zeugous (On the Team of... -
Exhortations to Philosophy: The Protreptics of Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle by James Henderson Collins 9780199358595
Booksplease Price: £101.24This book is a study of the literary strategies which the first professional philosophers used to market their respective disciplines. Philosophers of fourth-century BCE Athens developed the emerging... -
The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates: Text, Power, Pedagogy by Yun Lee Too 9780521474061
RRP: £114.00Booksplease Price: £110.15The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates offers a sustained interpretation of the Isocratean corpus, showing that rhetoric is a language which the author uses to create a political identity for himself... -
The Legacy of Isocrates and a Platonic Alternative: Political Philosophy and the Value of Education by James R. Muir
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Bringing together the history of educational philosophy, political philosophy, and rhetoric, this book examines the influence of the philosopher Isocrates on educational thought and the history of... -
New Boots and Pantisocracies W. N. Herbert 9780993454752
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993454752Author W. N. HerbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher... -
Selections from the Attic Orators: Antiphon, Andocides, Lysias, Isocrates, Isaeus by R.C Jebb 9781904675075
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.59This edition was designed by R.C. Jebb - one of the greatest classical scholars Britain has ever produced - as a companion to his two-volume monograph Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeus (1876)... -
Historical Notice on the Duke De Clermont-Tonnerre, Translator and Commentator of the Works of Isocrates by Egger Egger 9780371484838
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £10.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371484838Author Egger EggerFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher HardPress... -
Classical Rhetoric and Modern Public Relations: An Isocratean Model by Charles Marsh
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This book expands the theoretical foundations of modern public relations, a growing young profession that lacked even a name until the twentieth century. As the discipline seeks guiding theories and... -
Isocracy: The Institutions of Equality by Nicolo Bellanca 9783030006945
Booksplease Price: £90.56In the twentieth century there were two great political and social paradigms, the liberal-democratic and the libertarian (in its various socialist, anarchist, and communist delineations). The central... -
The Sophists Richard McKirahan 9781138902794
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14This book offers a new way of looking at the fifth-century BCE Sophists, rejecting the bad reputation they have had since antiquity and presenting them as individuals rather than a "movement," each... -
Letter-writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present: Historical and Bibliographic Studies by Carol Poster 9781570036514
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.20Once nearly as ubiquitous as dictionaries and cookbooks are today, letter-writing manuals and their predecessors served to instruct individuals not only on the art of letter composition but also, in... -
A History of the Greek City States, 700-338 B. C. by Raphael Sealey 9780520031777
Booksplease Price: £29.00This book introduces the reader to the serious study of Greek history, concentrating more on problems than on narrative. The topics selected have been prominent in modern research and references to... -
The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander by Phiroze Vasunia
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £43.03The Egyptians mesmerized the ancient Greeks for scores of years. The Greek literature and art of the classical period are especially thick with representations of Egypt and Egyptians. Yet despite... -
Greek Rhetoric of 4th Century BC: The Elixir of Democracy and Individuality by Evangelos Alexiou 9783110559798
RRP: £174.50Booksplease Price: £118.91The interaction between orator and audience, the passions and distrust held by many concerning the predominance of one individual, but also the individual's struggle as an advisor and political... -
Essays on Argumentation in Antiquity by Joseph Andrew Bjelde 9783030708191
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £112.12This book provides a collection of essays representing the state of the art in the research into argumentation in classical antiquity. It contains essays from leading and up and coming scholars on... -
Education in Renaissance England by 9780415860543
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £50.37Covering both formal and informal education, this volume examines Renaissance education in England and Italy, set within the relevant social, political and historical context.Book InformationISBN... -
The Rise Of Rhetoric And Its Intersection With Contemporary Critical Thought by Omar Swartz
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book features contemporary critical and Marxist theories of resistance, domination, knowledge, and systems of ideological control. It offers a balanced discussion of classical and modern... -
Creating the Ancient Rhetorical Tradition by Laura Viidebaum 9781108836562
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63This book explores the history of rhetorical thought and examines the gradual association of different aspects of rhetorical theory with two outstanding fourth-century BCE writers: Lysias and... -
Creating the Ancient Rhetorical Tradition by Laura Viidebaum
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.45This book explores the history of rhetorical thought and examines the gradual association of different aspects of rhetorical theory with two outstanding fourth-century BCE writers: Lysias and... -
Reflections of Revolution: Images of Romanticism by Alison Yarrington 9781138190634
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £32.89Reflections of Revolution, first published in 1993, demonstrates the interdisciplinarity that had been emerging from cultural and historical studies. Taking the French Revolution as its focus, the... -
Public Relations, Cooperation, and Justice: From Evolutionary Biology to Ethics by Charles Marsh 9780367874186
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Modern approaches to public relations cluster into three camps along a continuum: conflict-oriented egoism, e.g. forms of contingency theory that focus almost exclusively on the wellbeing of an... -
Calling Philosophers Names: On the Origin of a Discipline by Christopher Moore 9780691195056
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.93An original and provocative book that illuminates the origins of philosophy in ancient Greece by revealing the surprising early meanings of the word "philosopher"Calling Philosophers Names provides a... -
The Praise of Folly: Updated Edition by Desiderius Erasmus 9780691165646
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.72Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was a Dutch humanist, scholar, and social critic, and one of the most important figures of the Renaissance. The Praise of Folly is perhaps his best-known work... -
Professional Communication and Network Interaction: A Rhetorical and Ethical Approach by Heidi A. McKee
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Digital technologies and social media have changed the processes, products, and interactions of professional communication, reshaping how, when, with whom, and where business professionals... -
Stealing Helen: The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective by Lowell Edmunds 9780691165127
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £40.43It's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her. This story's best-known incarnation is also a central Greek myth--the abduction of Helen that led to the... -
Stealing Helen: The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective by Lowell Edmunds 9780691202334
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.82It's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her. This story's best-known incarnation is also a central Greek myth-the abduction of Helen that led to the...