University of Crete | Department of History and Archaeology
Department of Philosophy and Social Studies
I N T E R N A T I O N A L C O
N F E R E N C E
The interface between
philosophy and rhetoric in classical Athens
Rethymno,
29-31 October 2004
| Friday, Oct. 29 | University Campus, room D3-7A |
MORNING SESSION, Chair: Ioanna Yatromanolaki
| 10:00 | Opening Ceremony |
| 10:30‑13:30 | Chris Carey, "The rhetoric of diabole" |
| Coffee break | |
| Thanassis Eustathiou, "Rhetorical technique in Aischines' speech On the False Embassy. Rhetoric and democracy" | |
| Evangelos Alexiou, "Rhetorik, Philosophie und Politik: Isokrates und die homologoumene arete" |
AFTERNOON SESSION, Chair: Katerina Ierodiakonou
| 17:30‑20:30 | Charles Kahn, "Why did Plato write dialogues?" |
| Coffee break | |
| Harvey Yunis, "The protreptic rhetoric of Plato’s Republic" | |
| John Cooper, "Rhetorical appeals as tools for achieving moral improvement in imperial period Stoicism" | |
| Saturday, Oct. 30 | Institute for Mediterranean Studies* |
| * Corner of Melissinou and Nikiforou Foka 130, Rethymno |
MORNING SESSION, Chair: Jörgen Mejer
| 10:00‑13:30 | Ryan Balot, "Andreia as the footstool of justice? Defining masculinity at the crossroads of
Platonic philosophy and democratic rhetoric" |
| Robert Wallace, "Damon and affect theories in the fifth century" | |
| Coffee break | |
| Niall Livingstone, "Writing politics into philosophy: Isocrates' philosophy of political practice" | |
| Kathryn Morgan, "Speeches of persuasive charm: The ambiguities of therapy in Plato and Isocrates" |
AFTERNOON SESSION, Chair: Paul Kalligas
| 17:30‑21:00 | Michael Gagarin, "Kata ton orthotaton logon: Correct argument in the Sophists and early Orators" |
| Coffee break | |
| Eric Robinson, "The Sophists and democracy beyond Athens" | |
| Spyros Rangos, "Gorgias on truth and persuasion" | |
| Edward Harris, "The different approaches to open texture taken by Aristotle in the Rhetoric and Ethics and by Plato in the Laws" | |
| Sunday, Oct. 31 | Institute for Mediterranean Studies* |
| * Corner of Melissinou and Nikiforou Foka 130, Rethymno |
Chair: Michael Frede
| 10:30‑13:30 | Fritz-Gregor Herrmann, "Word, definition, polysemy and method in Plato's Phaedrus" |
| Coffee break | |
| Chloe Balla, "Aristotle and Plato on the transition from practice to theory" | |
| James Allen, "Dialectic and logic in Aristotelian rhetoric" | |
| Michael Frede, Concluding remarks |
Organizing committee
Anna Missiou, University of Crete
Chloe Balla, University of Crete
Yorgos Zografidis, University of Crete
Evangelos Alexiou, University of Thessaloniki
Katerina Ierodiakonou, National Technical University of Athens
Participants
Evangelos Alexiou, University of Thessaloniki [alexiou@lit.auth.gr]
James Allen, Pittsburgh University [jvallen+@pitt.edu]
Chloe Balla, University of Crete [kloni@otenet.gr]
Ryan Balot, Washington University in St. Louis [rkbalot@artsci.wustl.edu]
Chris Carey, University College London [c.carey@ucl.ac.uk]
John Cooper, Princeton University [johncoop@princeton.edu]
Thanassis Eustathiou, Ionion University [aefstath@ionio.gr]
Michael Frede, Oxford University
Michael Gagarin, University of Texas at Austin [gagarin@mail.utexas.edu]
Edward Harris, City University of New York [EdHarris@brooklyn.cuny.edu]
Fritz-Gregor Herrmann, University of Swansea [f.g.herrmann@swansea.ac.uk]
Katerina Ierodiakonou, National Technical University of Athens [katierod@central.ntua.gr]
Charles Kahn, University of Pennsylvania [chkahn@sas.upenn.edu]
Paul Kalligas, University of Athens [moltke@hol.gr]
Niall Livingstone, University of Birmingham [n.r.livingstone@bham.ac.uk]
Anna Missiou, University of Crete [missiou@phl.uoc.gr]
Kathryn Morgan, University of California at Los Angeles [kmorgan@humnet.ucla.edu]
Jörgen Mejer, University of Copenhagen [mejer@hum.ku.dk]
Spyros Rangos, University of Patras [rangos@upatras.gr]
Eric Robinson, Harvard University [ewrobins@fas.harvard.edu]
Ioanna Yatromanolaki, Vice-rector, University of Crete [ioanna@phl.uoc.gr]
Harvey Yunis, Rice University [yunis@rice.edu]
Robert Wallace, Northwestern University [rwallace@northwestern.edu]
Yorgos Zografidis, University of Crete [zograf@phl.uoc.gr]
View or download papers
Papers by the following authors are available in PDF format:
Evangelos Alexiou,
Chloe Balla , Chris
Carey, Michael Gagarin, Edward
Harris, Harvey
Yunis and Susan Lape*.
* Susan Lape [slape@uci.edu] was unable to come to the conference, but she kindly offered her paper for distribution.
| The conference is kindly
supported by the Panayotis & Effie Michelis Foundation and the Ministry of Culture |
For further information please contact: kloni@otenet.gr