Abstract

Politics from the Field to the Audience In The Laws, Plato claimed that one of the chief ends of athletic contests was the composition and presentation of “speeches of commendation and reproof,” narrative speeches drawn from the competition that could be used by the state to shape the values and actions of the citizenry. We know that many of the great rhetoricians of the day, including Gorgias, Lysias and Isocrates, used this platform to deliver often scathing political messages. Today, the m...

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