Spring 2024 Comparative Literature: English UN3720 section 001

PLATO THE RHETORICIAN

Call Number 12311
Day & Time
Location
T 2:10pm-4:00pm
328 Uris Hall
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Kathy H Eden
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

Prerequisites: Instructors permission (Seminar). Although Socrates takes a notoriously dim view of persuasion and the art that produces it, the Platonic dialogues featuring him both theorize and practice a range of rhetorical strategies that become the nuts and bolts of persuasive argumentation. This seminar will read a number of these dialogues, including Apology, Protagoras, Ion, Gorgias, Phaedrus, Menexenus and Republic, followed by Aristoles Rhetoric, the rhetorical manual of Platos student that provides our earliest full treatment of the art. Application instructions: E-mail Prof. Eden (khe1@columbia.edu) with your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course. Admitted students should register for the course; they will automatically be placed on a wait list from which the instructor will in due course admit them as spaces become available.

Web Site Vergil
Department English and Comparative Literature
Enrollment 16 students (18 max) as of 9:05PM Monday, December 2, 2024
Subject Comparative Literature: English
Number UN3720
Section 001
Division Interfaculty
Note Application required: Email khe1 with your name, school, maj
Section key 20241CLEN3720W001