Style and the ‘Idea’ of the Sophist in the Time after Plato. The Impact of Form Typology in Sophistic Teaching and Writing on Interdisciplinary Scholarly Work

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Main Author: FEE-ALEXANDRA HAASE
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Published: Universidade de Aveiro 2009
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contents Style and the ‘Idea’ of the Sophist in the Time after Plato. The Impact of Form Typology in Sophistic Teaching and Writing on Interdisciplinary Scholarly Work FEE-ALEXANDRA HAASE Lengua y Literatura Idea Style Rhetoric Sophistry Mediterranean Sophists acted among the educated persons and scholars in the Mediterranean after the 1st Sophistic in many regards as a special and distinct group. Since many examples show that they acted not only as sophists, but also performed other activities, we will examine here several cases were we see similarities and differences between them and other groups of scholars. Our three basic questions ‘what, how and why did the sophists teach and write?’ we answer examining diachronically the major forms and genres of writings they produced (‘What’), the "How" will be answered looking at their performance as a communicative activity beyond borders of contemporary disciplines, and the "Why" we try to answer emphasizing the necessity of sophistical activity in the contemporary socialization and education of late antiquity. Claiming that style was the idea of the sophists, we put Plato’s concept of ideas critically in the context of the concept of ideas derived from contemporary and later sophists focusing on the function of visuality from early sophistic works to the late antique era represented by Philostatus’ Imagines. 2009 artículo científico 0874-5498 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=321027642003 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3210 Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em debate application/pdf Universidade de Aveiro Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em debate (Portugal) Num.11
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spellingShingle Style and the ‘Idea’ of the Sophist in the Time after Plato. The Impact of Form Typology in Sophistic Teaching and Writing on Interdisciplinary Scholarly Work
FEE-ALEXANDRA HAASE
Lengua y Literatura
Idea
Style
Rhetoric
Sophistry
Mediterranean
Style and the ‘Idea’ of the Sophist in the Time after Plato. The Impact of Form Typology in Sophistic Teaching and Writing on Interdisciplinary Scholarly Work FEE-ALEXANDRA HAASE Lengua y Literatura Idea Style Rhetoric Sophistry Mediterranean Sophists acted among the educated persons and scholars in the Mediterranean after the 1st Sophistic in many regards as a special and distinct group. Since many examples show that they acted not only as sophists, but also performed other activities, we will examine here several cases were we see similarities and differences between them and other groups of scholars. Our three basic questions ‘what, how and why did the sophists teach and write?’ we answer examining diachronically the major forms and genres of writings they produced (‘What’), the "How" will be answered looking at their performance as a communicative activity beyond borders of contemporary disciplines, and the "Why" we try to answer emphasizing the necessity of sophistical activity in the contemporary socialization and education of late antiquity. Claiming that style was the idea of the sophists, we put Plato’s concept of ideas critically in the context of the concept of ideas derived from contemporary and later sophists focusing on the function of visuality from early sophistic works to the late antique era represented by Philostatus’ Imagines. 2009 artículo científico 0874-5498 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=321027642003 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3210 Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em debate application/pdf Universidade de Aveiro Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em debate (Portugal) Num.11
title Style and the ‘Idea’ of the Sophist in the Time after Plato. The Impact of Form Typology in Sophistic Teaching and Writing on Interdisciplinary Scholarly Work
topic Lengua y Literatura
Idea
Style
Rhetoric
Sophistry
Mediterranean
url https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=321027642003