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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 -
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 -
Greek Orators III: Isocrates, Panegyricus and Ad Nicolem Isocrates 9780856684142
Booksplease Price: £31.43Two 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. 3 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,... -
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... -
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... -
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 -
Isocrates ›Peri tou zeugous‹: An Encomium of Alcibiades Evangelos Alexiou 9783112227633
RRP: £109.50Booksplease Price: £71.04The 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... -
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 -
The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates: Text, Power, Pedagogy by Yun Lee Too 9780521124522
Booksplease Price: £44.32The 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... -
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 Legacy of Isocrates and a Platonic Alternative: Political Philosophy and the Value of Education by James R. Muir
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Bringing 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... -
Selections from the Attic Orators: Antiphon, Andocides, Lysias, Isocrates, Isaeus by R.C Jebb 9781904675075
Booksplease Price: £40.21This 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)... -
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 -
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 -
Classical Rhetoric and Modern Public Relations: An Isocratean Model by Charles Marsh
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79This 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: £90.03In 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... -
Local Systems in Algebraic-Arithmetic Geometry by Hélène Esnault 9783031408397
Booksplease Price: £50.45The topological fundamental group of a smooth complex algebraic variety is poorly understood. One way to approach it is to consider its complex linear representations modulo conjugation, that is, its... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Education in Renaissance England by 9780415860543
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Covering 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... -
Creating the Ancient Rhetorical Tradition by Laura Viidebaum 9781108836562
Booksplease Price: £82.70This 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... -
The Rise Of Rhetoric And Its Intersection With Contemporary Critical Thought by Omar Swartz
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This 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... -
Reflections of Revolution: Images of Romanticism by Alison Yarrington 9781138190634
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59Reflections 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... -
Creating the Ancient Rhetorical Tradition by Laura Viidebaum
Booksplease Price: £35.47This 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... -
Professional Communication and Network Interaction: A Rhetorical and Ethical Approach by Heidi A. McKee
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Digital technologies and social media have changed the processes, products, and interactions of professional communication, reshaping how, when, with whom, and where business professionals... -
Public Relations, Cooperation, and Justice: From Evolutionary Biology to Ethics by Charles Marsh 9780367874186
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Modern 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... -
Stealing Helen: The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective by Lowell Edmunds 9780691165127
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.96It'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: £34.35It'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... -
The Praise of Folly: Updated Edition by Desiderius Erasmus 9780691165646
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.51Desiderius 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... -
Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought by Deborah Tarn Steiner 9780691094885
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £51.87In archaic and classical Greece, statues played a constant role in people's religious, political, economic, aesthetic, and mental lives. Evidence of many kinds demonstrates that ancient Greeks... -
Calling Philosophers Names: On the Origin of a Discipline by Christopher Moore
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02An 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... -
Aristotle: His Life and School by Carlo Natali 9780691242170
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.21The definitive account of Aristotle's life and schoolThis definitive biography shows that Aristotle's philosophy is best understood on the basis of a firm knowledge of his life and of the school he... -
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... -
Exile, Ostracism, and Democracy: The Politics of Expulsion in Ancient Greece by Sara Forsdyke 9780691119755
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £66.64This book explores the cultural and political significance of ostracism in democratic Athens. In contrast to previous interpretations, Sara Forsdyke argues that ostracism was primarily a symbolic...