Texts:
Freeman, Kathleen. Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers. A Complete Tranlation of the Fragments in Diels, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1983.
Kerferd, G. B. The Sophistic Movement. Cambridge: The UP, 1981.
Guthrie, W. K. C. The Sophists. Cambridge: the UP, 1971.
Isocrates, The Works of.... 3 Vols. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1986.
Jaeger, Werner. Paideia (chapter 1-6) on "Isocrates." NY: Oxford UP, 1965.
Philostratus, The Lives of the Sophists. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1968.
Assignments: (1) give four reports (2) submit a 20+ publishable paper on a preapproved topic. In addition, each student is expected to keep up with the readings and to participate in seminar discussions.
Syllabus:
Jan. 18th...Introduction
Jan. 25th...Rankin
Feb. 1st...Guthrie
Feb. 8th...Kerferd
Feb. 15th...Philostratus; Bowersock, "The Biographer of the Sophists." Nietzsche; and Hegel.
Feb. 22nd...Grote; Gomperz; Pater; Sidgwick; Zeller. Jaeger; Baldwin; Untersteiner.
Mar. 1st...Kerferd "Future Directions"; Burnet; Classen; Enos "Aristotle"; Hunt; Kennedy "Chapter 3"; Marrou; Moss; Poulakos (all three articles); Reale.
Mar. 8th...Gorgias
Mar. 29th...
Ap. 5th...
Ap. 12...Isocrates
Ap. 19th...
Ap. 26th...
Additional Readings (at copy center in the Student Union): Baldwin, Charles Sears. (chapter 1) "The Sophistic Trend in Ancient Rhetoric." Medieval Rhetoric and Poetic (to 1400). NY: MacMillan, 1928. 1-50.
Bowerstock, G. W. "The Biographer of the Sophists." Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire. Oxford: At the Clarendon P, 1969. 1-16.
Burnet, John. (chapter 7) "The Sophists." Greek Philosophy: Thales to Plato. London: Macmillan, 1964. 85-101.
Classen, C. Joachim. "Aristotle's Picture of the Sophists." Kerferd. The Sophists and Their Legacy. 7-24.
Enos, Richard Leo. "Aristotle, Empedocles, and the Notion of Rhetoric." In Search of Justince: The Indiana Tradition in Speech Communication. Ed. Richard J. Jensen and John C. Hammerback. Admsterdam: Rodopi, 1987. 5-21.
---. "The Epistemology of Gorgias' Rhetoric: A Reexamination." The Southern Speech Communication Journal 42 (Fall 1976): 35-51.
Finley, M. I. "The Heritage of Isocrates." The Use and Abuse of History. NY: Penguin, 1975. 193-246.
Gomperz, Theodor. (chapter 5) "The Sophists." Greek Thinkers: A History of Ancient Philosophy. Vol. 1 (1901) London: John Murray, 1955.
Gronbeck, Bruce E. "Gorgias on Rhetoric and Poetic: A Rehabilitation." The Southern Speech Communication Journal 38 (Fall 1972): 27-38.
Grote, George. (chapter 67) The Drama.--Rhetoric and Dialectics.--The Sophists." A History of Grecce. London: John Murray, 1869. 118-204.
[Hegel, G. W. F.] "Chapter 2) "First Period, Second Division: From the Sophists to the Socratics." Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy. Vol. 1 of 3. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974. 350-84.
Hunt, Everett Lee. "On the Sophists." The Province of Rhetoric. Ed., Joseph Schwartz and John A. Rycenga. NY: Ronald, 1965.
Ijsseling, Samuel. "Isocrares and the Power of the Logos." Rhetoric and Philosophy in Conflict. The Hauge: Martinus Nijhoff, 1976.
Jaeger, Werner. (chapter 3) "The Sophists" in Archaic Greece: The Mind of Athens. Vol 1. NY: Oxford UP, 1965.
Jarratt, Susan C. "The First Sophists and the Uses of History." Rhetoric Review 6.1 (1987): 67-77.
---. "Toward a Sophistic Historiography." PRE/TEXT 8.1-2 (1987): 9-26.
Jarrett, James L. The Educational Theories of the Sophists. NY: Teachers College P of Columbia U, 1969.
Kennedy, George A. The Art of Persuasion in Ancient Greece. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1963.
---. "Chapter 3: Sophistic Rhetoric." Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times. Chapel Hill: U of NC P, 1980.
Kerferd, G. B., Ed. "Gorgias on nature or that which is not." Phronesis 1 (1955): 3-25.
---. The Sophists and Their Legacy. Proceedings of the Fourth International Colloquium on Ancient Philosophy. Hermes 44 (1981).
---. "The Future Direction of Sophistic Studies." Kerferd. The Sophists and Their Legacy. 1-6.
Marrou, H. I. (chapter 5) "The Pedagogical Revolution of the Early Sophists." A History of Education in Antiquity. NY: Sheed and Ward, 1956. 46-91.
Miller, Bernard A. "Heidegger and the Gorgian Kairos." Visions of Rhetoric. Ed. Charles W. Kneupper. Arlington, TX: Rhetoric Society of America, 1987.
Moss, Roger. "The Case for Sophistry." Rhetoric Revealed. Ed. Brian Vickers. Binghamton, NY: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1982. 207-24.
Nelson, J. S. "Political Theory as Political Rhetoric." What Should Political Theory Be New? Albany: SUNY P, 1983. 176-93.
Nietzsche, Friedrich. "Critique of Greek Philosophy." The Will to Power. Ed. Walter Kaufmann. NY: Vintage, 1968. 231-57.
Pater, Walter. "Plato and the Sophists." Plato and Platonism: A Series of Lectures. NY: Chelsea House, 1983. 99-123.
Perkins, Terry M. "Isocrates and Plato: Relativism vs. Idealism." The Southern Speech Communication Journal 50 (1984): 49-66.
Poulakos, John. "Rhetoric, the Sophists, and the Possible." Communication Monographs 51 (1984): 215-26.
---. "Sophistical Rhetoric as a Critique of Culture." Argument and Critical Practices. Proceeding of the fifth SCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation. Ed. by Joseph W. Wenzel. Annandale, VA: SCA, 1987. 97-101.
---. "Toward a Sophistic Definition of Rhetoric." Philosophy and Rhetoric 16.1 (1983): 35-48.
Rankin, H. D. (chapters 1-5) Sophists, Socratics and Cynics. Totowa, NJ: Barnes and Noble, 1983.
Reale, Giovanni. "1. The Origin, Nature, and Goals of the Sophistic Movement." A History of Ancient Philosophy. 1. From the Origins to Socrates. Ed. John R. Catan. Albany: SUNY P, 1987. 149-90.
Romilly, Jacqueline de. Magic and Rhetoric in Ancient Greece. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1975.
---. "Reflections on Politics and History: Isocrates and Xenophon." A Short History of Greek Literature. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1985.
Segal, Charles P. "Gorgias and the Psychology of the Logos." Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 66 (1962): 99-155.
Sidgwick, Henry. "The Sophists." Lectures on the Philosophy of Kant. London: Macmillan, 1905.
Sprague, Rosamond Kent. "Eating, Growth, and Sophists: Some Aristotelian Food for Thought." Kerferd. The Sophists and Their Legacy. 64-80.
---. Ed. "Gorgias" (trans. George Kennedy), "Anonymous Iamblichi," "Dissoi Logoi or Dialexeis." The Older Sophists. A Complete Translation by Several Hands of the Fragments in Die Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker. Ed. Diels-Kranz. Colubmia, SAC: U of SC P, 1972.
Unstersteiner, Mario. (chapters 4-9, 16) The Sophists. Trans. Kathleen Freeman. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1954.
Verdenium, W. J. "Gorgias' Doctrine of Deception." Kerferd. The Sophists and Their Legacy. 116-128.
Welch, Kathleen E. "Isocrates," forthcoming The Ancients: Creators of Western Literary Tradition. Ed. Ellen rosenberg Kouner. Columbia, SC: Gale.
White, Eric Charles. "The Paradox of the Liar." Kaironomia: On the Will-To-Invent. Ithica: Cornell UP, 1987. 11-43.
Zeller, Eduard. "The Sophists." Outlines of the History of Greek Philosophy. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1955. 75-93.
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