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  • 2 - Reflections on Lysias and Lysianic Rhetoric in the Fourth Century BCE

  • from Part I - Lysias, Isocrates and Plato: Ancient Rhetoric in Athens
  • Laura Viidebaum, New York University
  • Book:
    Creating the Ancient Rhetorical Tradition
    Published online:
    03 November 2021
    Print publication:
    18 November 2021, pp 32-61
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    The second chapter pays close attention to the perception and portrayal of Lysias amidst his contemporaries, and in particular in the dialogues of Plato which constitute our major source for Lysias as a writer. A pervasive thread in the ancient reception of Lysias turns out to be the fascination for his effective and enchanting style of writing, so much so that he becomes the primary representative of the kind of rhetoric that is concerned with stylistic features and their alluring associations with persuasion.