“Correct Logos and Truth in Gorgias’ Encomium of Helen”
ResearchPaper EnglishVessela Valiavitcharska
Rhetorica. Journal of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric 24.2 (2006): 147-161
Gorgias' insistence on correctness of speech surfaces not only in the Encomium of Helen, but also in the Funeral Oration fragment and in Agathon's parody of Gorgianic rhetoric in Plato's Symposium. Correct speech goes beyond the effectiveness of language and into the domain of ethical correctness and responsibility.
“Correct Logos and …Faculty62541University of California Press