Author : Scott Porter Consigny
Release : 2001
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 244/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Gorgias, Sophist and Artist by : Scott Porter Consigny
Download or read book Gorgias, Sophist and Artist written by Scott Porter Consigny. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristophanes depicted him as a barbaric sycophant, Plato as a shallow opportunist, and Aristotle as an inept stylist, but the Greek teacher of rhetoric Gorgias of Leontini (483-375 BCE) has been again attracting attention from scholars. Consigny (English, Iowa State U.) articulates a coherent account of the enigmatic thinker and writer. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR