Open AccessGORGIAS AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSUASION
Author(s) -
Dylan Futter
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
akroterion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.102
0eISSN - 2079-2883
pISSN - 0303-1896
DOI - 10.7445/56-0-1
Subject(s) - blame , persuasion , rhetorical question , logos bible software , point (geometry) , state (computer science) , conjecture , rhetorical device , philosophy , epistemology , sociology , psychology , psychoanalysis , law , social psychology , linguistics , political science , theology , mathematics , algorithm , geometry , pure mathematics
Although the stated objective of Gorgias’ Encomium of Helen may be doubted1— to free Helen from blame for leaving her home and husband to go to Troy withParis (2) — it surely contains a serious point. The speech seems more accurately anencomium of the logos, than Helen, leading Charles Segal to conjecture that it‘may even have served as a kind of formal profession of the aims and the methodsof his art’ (1962:102). Some regard it as one of our best insights into the state oflate fifth century rhetorical theory (Kerferd 1981:78)