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Sophrosyne and the Rhetoric of Self-Restraint: Polysemy & Persuasive Use of an Ancient Greek Value Term

Sophrosyne and the Rhetoric of Self-Restraint: Polysemy & Persuasive Use of an Ancient Greek Value Term

Rademaker, Adriaan

Hardcover

Series: Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava, Book 259

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ISBN10: 9004142517
ISBN13: 9789004142510
Publisher: Brill
Published: Dec 3 2004
Pages: 380
Weight: 1.84
Height: 1.17 Width: 8.22 Depth: 9.62
Language: English
While of paramount importance to Ancient Greek society, sophrosyne, the value of self-restraint, constitutes a notoriously complex concept, and provides the speaker of Ancient Greek with a subtle instrument for verbal persuasion.
This study provides a new description of the semantics of sophrosyne in Archaic and Classical Greek, based on a model from the field of cognitive linguistics. Besides, the volume shows how such a semantic description can contribute to the analysis and study of our sources: it investigates how speakers in our texts (ab)use the term to achieve their ends, covering most of the main texts, and culminating in a chapter on the dialogues of Plato.

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