Abstract
In this article I shall concentrate on ten lines in Plato's Gorgias (449c9-d9) dealing with what has come to be known as "rhetoric's materia question." By taking Gorgias as a representative of the first stages of rhetoric in ancient Greek thought, and by a close analysis of Socrates' move in the above section, I shall pinpoint exactlywhere Plato located rhetoric in the consciousness of Gorgias, and by this offer a new perspective on one of the hot questions in secondary literature nowadays-the origin of.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1-22 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | Rhetorica - Journal of the History of Rhetoric |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 2011 |
Keywords
- Art
- Gorgias
- Materia
- Plato
- Rhetoric
- Schiappa