Takis Poulakos
Biographic Data
| ID | 3480804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Takis Poulakos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Takis |
| FAMILY NAME | Poulakos |
| SIGNATURE | POULAKOS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Isocrates and Civic Education
Isocrates' Use of doxa
Isocrates' Use of doxa Takis Poulakos Even though Isocrates presents Antidosis as a thorough defense of his educational program, he says very little about it, choosing instead to offer lavish portraits of his own earlier writings, elaborate arguments in defense of his reputation, and painstaking attacks against his competitors. One of the few passages where he speaks directly and explicitly about his educational views concerns the type of teachin…
Historiographies of the tradition of rhetoric
This essay argues that the six surviving funeral orations from the classical Greek period should be understood as instances of laudatory discourse designed to fulfill the institutional function of glorifying the Athenian state. This perspective enables the critic to examine the changes this discourse underwent as the object of its glorification-the state-changed. It also reveals the incompleteness of treatments by Kennedy and others that present …
Isocrates's use of narrative in the Evagoras
Examining the Evagoras from the perspective of contemporary narrative theory, this essay inquires into the internal adjustments that the encomium underwent as epideictic rhetoric sought to play a role in the affairs of the state. The innovative nature of Isocrates's encomium is located in the uniqueness of its narrative structure: a combination of a fictional narrative (the quest of virtue) with a historical narrative (the biographical sketch of …
Isocrates's use of narrative in the Evagoras
Examining the Evagoras from the perspective of contemporary narrative theory, this essay inquires into the internal adjustments that the encomium underwent as epideictic rhetoric sought to play a role in the affairs of the state. The innovative nature of Isocrates's encomium is located in the uniqueness of its narrative structure: a combination of a fictional narrative (the quest of virtue) with a historical narrative (the biographical sketch of …
Historiographies of the tradition of rhetoric
This essay argues that the six surviving funeral orations from the classical Greek period should be understood as instances of laudatory discourse designed to fulfill the institutional function of glorifying the Athenian state. This perspective enables the critic to examine the changes this discourse underwent as the object of its glorification-the state-changed. It also reveals the incompleteness of treatments by Kennedy and others that present …
Isocrates's use of narrative in the Evagoras
Examining the Evagoras from the perspective of contemporary narrative theory, this essay inquires into the internal adjustments that the encomium underwent as epideictic rhetoric sought to play a role in the affairs of the state. The innovative nature of Isocrates's encomium is located in the uniqueness of its narrative structure: a combination of a fictional narrative (the quest of virtue) with a historical narrative (the biographical sketch of …
Historiographies of the tradition of rhetoric
This essay argues that the six surviving funeral orations from the classical Greek period should be understood as instances of laudatory discourse designed to fulfill the institutional function of glorifying the Athenian state. This perspective enables the critic to examine the changes this discourse underwent as the object of its glorification-the state-changed. It also reveals the incompleteness of treatments by Kennedy and others that present …
Isocrates' Use of doxa
Isocrates' Use of doxa Takis Poulakos Even though Isocrates presents Antidosis as a thorough defense of his educational program, he says very little about it, choosing instead to offer lavish portraits of his own earlier writings, elaborate arguments in defense of his reputation, and painstaking attacks against his competitors. One of the few passages where he speaks directly and explicitly about his educational views concerns the type of teachin…
Isocrates and Civic Education
Rhetoric and Communication Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Action (physics (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · ancient (1 work) · Ancient Education (1 work)