Isocrates’ Encomium of Helen: Reply to Gorgias and the Unicity of his Epideictic Discourse

<p><span>Around 390-80 BC, the Athenian Isocrates composed one of his first speeches as an educator, the <em>Helen</em>. According to most scholars, this speech seems to be a replica to the famous Eulogy of Helen by Gorgias, which, according to Isocrates (§14), would have mad...

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Main Author: Ticiano Curvelo Estrela de Lacerda
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 2017-06-01
Series:Codex: Revista de Estudos Clássicos
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Online Access:https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/CODEX/article/view/10857

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