Historical Rhetorics 2. Gorgias and Phaedrus.

Week Two:

  • Issues with the grid; secondary source presentations (
  • Ballif and Enos on historiography
  • Gorgias and the Phaedrus
  • Break
  • Prepping the homework on Aristotle
  • Socrates, Callicles, and a Reason for Long Speeches

What can we do about the grid?

We have a bit of an issue with the secondary source presentations, as a few weeks have a big pile up:

  • Week Four (Aristotle): Hillen, Palmer
  • Week Six (Isocrates): Cannon, Blank,
  • Week Seven (Older Sophists): Phillips, Bolick
  • Week Eight (Vitanza and Jarratt): Ray, Loyer
  • Week Nine (McComiskey and Latour): Cannon, Phillips
  • Week Eleven (Cicero): Cass, Blank, Rea
  • Week Twelve (Quintilian): Walkup, Gourgoitis
  • Week Thirteen (Augustine): Zarlengo, Blank
  • Week Fourteen (Ong/Ramus): Palmer, Zarlengo
  • Week Fifteen (Grassi, Humanism): Cosgrove, Rea

Onto the Gorgias and the Phaedrus. I have stuff on these in the wikibook:

Finally, I have a thing to read. I am calling this thing Socrates, Callices, and a Reason for Long Speeches. This was written in a straight shot, so to speak, before class. So excuse the typos. And the logos.

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