Sophrosyne and the Rhetoric of Self-Restraint

Polysemy & Persuasive Use of an Ancient Greek Value Term
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-04-14251-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 259, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 209 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 835 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rademaker, Adriaan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Über Autor(innen)

Adriaan Rademaker, Ph.D. (2004) in Classics, Leiden University, is post-doctoral fellow at Leiden University. His current research concentrates on early Greek ideas about language.