A commentary on Isocrates' Busiris

This volume contains a scholarly commentary on the puzzling work "Busiris" - part mythological "jeu d'esprit", part rhetorical treatise and part self-promoting polemic - by the Greek educator and rhetorician Isocrates (436-338 BC). The commentary reveals Isocrates' strategies in advertising his own political rhetoric as a middle way between amoral "sophistic" education and the abstruse studies of Plato's Academy. Introductory chapters situate "Busiris" within the lively intellectual marketplace