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1. Doing Greek Philosophy

   By Robert Wardy

   Series: Classical Foundations

   This lively and original guidebook offers an invitation to the study of Greek philosophy and signposts to lead the student deeper. The reader is drawn in to the questions the philosophers posed. Doing Greek Philosophy conveys a vital sense of the dynamism and continuity in the Greek philosophical...

   Published December 21st 2005 by Routledge
2. The Birth of Rhetoric

   Gorgias, Plato and their Successors

   By Robert Wardy

   Series: Issues in Ancient Philosophy

   What is rhetoric?Is it the capacity to persuade? Or is it 'mere' rhetoric: the ability to get others to do what the speaker wants, regardless of what they want? This is the rhetoric of ideological manipulation and political seduction. Rhetoric is for some a distinctive mode of communication; for...

   Published March 11th 1998 by Routledge