Cover Image

Menexenus /

Plato challenges his readers by depicting an elderly Socrates as an enthusiastic student of rhetoric who has learned from his teacher Aspasia to recite an inspiring funeral oration, an oration that conspicuously refers to events occurring after the deaths of Socrates and Aspasia, an oration that Asp...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Plato (Author)
Other Authors:	Sansone, David (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Language Notes:	In English and ancient Greek.
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2020]
Series:	Cambridge Greek and Latin classics.
Subjects:	Socrates. Rhetoric, Ancient. Rhetoric > Philosophy. Funeral orations.

Similar Items

Politics and philosophy in Plato's Menexenus : education and rhetoric, myth and history /
by: Pappas, Nickolas, 1960-, et al.
Published: (2015)

The Symposium ; and, The Phaedrus : Plato's erotic dialogues /
by: Plato
Published: (1993)

The Plato reader /
by: Plato
Published: (1996)

What is rhetoric? /
by: Meyer, Michel, 1950-
Published: (2017)

Cicero's select orations, translated into English : With the original Latin, from the best editions, in the opposite page; and notes historical, critical, and explanatory: designed for the use of schools, as well as private gentlemen. By William Dungan, professor of philosophy, in the University of Aberdeen.
by: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Published: (1765)

Dionysiou Longinou peri hypsous hypomnēma = Dionysii Longini de sublimitate commentarius, quem nova versione donavit, ... Zacharias Pearce.
by: Longinus, active 1st century
Published: (1773)

Dionysiou Longinou peri hypsous hypomnēma = Dionysii Longini de sublimitate commentarius, quem nova versione donavit, ... Zacharias Pearce, ...
by: Longinus, active 1st century
Published: (1733)

Dionysiou Longinou peri hypsous = Dionysii Longini de sublimitate commentarius. Curante Georgio Miller ...
by: Longinus, active 1st century
Published: (1797)

A companion to Roman rhetoric /
Published: (2007)

Plato on rhetoric and language : four key dialogues /
by: Plato
Published: (1999)

Rereading Aristotle's Rhetoric /
Published: (2000)

Defence of Socrates ; Euthyphro ; Crito /
by: Plato
Published: (1997)

Apología de Sócrates /
by: Plato
Published: (2003)

Assembling arguments : multimodal rhetoric and scientific discourse /
by: Buehl, Jonathan
Published: (2015)

The bleak political implications of Socratic religion /
by: Drury, Shadia B., 1950-
Published: (2017)

Living without philosophy : on narrative, rhetoric, and morality /
by: Levine, Peter, 1967-
Published: (1998)

Papers on Quintilian and ancient declamation /
by: Winterbottom, Michael
Published: (2019)

Plato as author : the rhetoric of philosophy /
Published: (2003)

Editorial bodies : perfection and rejection in ancient rhetoric and poetics /
by: Kennerly, Michele
Published: (2018)

Rhetoric and kairos : essays in history, theory, and praxis /
Published: (2002)

The literate mode of Cicero's legal rhetoric /
by: Enos, Richard Leo
Published: (1988)

Insults in classical Athens /
by: Kamen, Deborah
Published: (2020)

Rhetoric and Galatians : assessing an approach to Paul's epistle /
by: Kern, Philip H.
Published: (1998)

The banquet of xenophon : Done from the Greek, with an introductory essay to Lady Jean Douglass, concerning the doctrine, and death of Socrates. By James Welwood, M.D. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
by: Xenophon

The memorable things of Socrates : Written by Xenophon. In five books. Translated into English. To which are prefix'd the life of Socrates; from the French of Monsieur Charpentier, a member of the French Academy. And the life of Xenophon, collected from several authors. With some account of his writings. The second edition. By E. Bysshe, gent. author of the art of English poetry.
by: Xenophon
Published: (1713)

The memorable things of Socrates, written by Xenophon. I : In five books. Translated into English. To which are prefixed the life of Socrates, from the French of Monsieur Charpentier, a member of the French Academy. And the life of Xenophon, collected from several authors; with some account of his writings.
by: Xenophon

Socrates /
by: Rudebusch, George, 1957-
Published: (2009)

Institutions and ideology in Republican Rome : speech, audience and decision /
Published: (2018)

Socrates on trial /
by: Tubbs, Nigel
Published: (2022)

Rhetoric & Power : the drama of classical Greece /
by: Crick, Nathan
Published: (2015)

The Rhetorics of Thomas Hobbes and Bernard Lamy /
Published: (1986)

Xenophon's Socratic education : reason, religion, and the limits of politics /
by: Sebell, Dustin
Published: (2021)

Recovering overlooked pragmatists in communication : extending the living conversation about pragmatism and rhetoric /
Published: (2019)

Rhetoric at the non-substantialistic turn : the East-West coin /
by: Dykeman, Therese Boos
Published: (2018)

Seeming & being in Plato's rhetorical theory /
by: Reames, Robin
Published: (2018)

Theodore Metochites on the human condition and the decline of Rome : Semeioseis gnomikai 27-60 : a critical edition with introduction, translation, notes, and indexes /
by: Metochites, Theodoros, 1270-1332
Published: (2016)

The rhetoric of seeing in Attic forensic oratory /
by: O'Connell, Peter A.
Published: (2017)

Socrates mystagogos : initiation into inquiry /
by: Adams, Don (Don Edgar Innis), 1961-
Published: (2017)

Rereading the sophists : classical rhetoric refigured /
by: Jarratt, Susan Carole Funderburgh
Published: (1998)

How the Socratic Method Engenders Authentic Educational Experiences.
by: Giuseffi, Frank
Published: (2021)