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Sophistic Rhetoric:
Selected Sources

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Primary Texts and Commentaries
Lysias.	Selected Speeches. Ed. Charles Darwin Adams. New York: American Book, 1905. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1970.
Sprague, Rosamond Kent, ed.	The Older Sophists. Translation of Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, ed. by Diels-Kranz, Vaduz: Weidmann. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1972.
Secondary Sources
See also separate bibliographies under individual sophists: Thucydides Gorgias Isocrates
Ambrose, Z. P.	"Socrates and Prodicus in the Clouds." Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy. Vol. II. Albany: SUNY P, 1983. 129-144.
Benjamin, James.	"Eristic, Dialectic, and Rhetoric." Communication Quarterly 31 (1983): 21–26.
Benson, Hugh.	"A Note on Eristic and the Socratic Elenchus." Journal of the History of Philosophy 27 (1989): 591–599.
Consigny, Scott.	"Edward Schiappa's Reading of the Sophists." Rhetoric Review 14 (1996): 253-269.
---.	"Nietzsche's Reading of the Sophists."Rhetoric Review 13 (1994): 5-26.
Crowley, Sharon..	"A Plea for the Revival of Sophistry." Rhetoric Review 7 (1989): 318-334.
Enos, Richard.	Greek Rhetoric Before Aristotle. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland P, 1993.
Forrest, W. G.	"An Athenian Generation Gap." Yale Classical Studies 24 (1975): 37-54.
Guthrie, W. K. C.	The Sophists. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1971.
Henrichs, A.	"The Sophists and Hellenistic Religion: Prodicus as the Spiritual Father of the Isis Aretalogies." Actes du VIIe Congrès de la Fédération Internationale des Associations d'Etudes classiques. Budapest: Akad. Kiado, 1984. 339-353.
---.	"Two Doxographical Notes: Democritus and Prodicus on Religion." Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 79 (1975): 93-123.
Hodges, Karen A.	"Unfolding Sophistic and Humanist Practice through Ingenium." Rhetoric Review 15 (1996): 86-92.
Jarratt, Susan C.	Rereading the Sophists: Classical Rhetoric Reconsidered. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991.
Johnstone, Christopher.	"Communicating in Classical Contexts: The Centrality of Delivery." Quarterly Journal of Speech 87 (2001): 121-142.
Kerferd, G. B.	The Sophistic Movement. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1981.
Kirby, John T.	"The 'Great Triangle' in Early Greek Rhetoric and Poetics." Rhetorica 8 (1990): 213–228.
Lentz, T. M.	"Writing as Sophistry: From Preservation to Persuasion." Quarterly Journal of Speech 68 (1982): 60-68.
Moss, Roger.	"The Case for Sophistry." Rhetoric Revalued: Papers from the International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Ed. Brian Vickers. Binghamton, NY: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1982. 207–224.
Nehamas, Alexander	"Eristic, Antilogic, Sophistic, Dialectic: Plato's Demarcation of Philosophy from Sophistry." History of Philosophy Quarterly 7 (1990): 3-16
Newman, John K.	"Protagoras, Gorgias and the Dialogic Principle." Illinois Classical Studies 11 (1986): 43-61.
Poster, Carol.	"Persuasion in an Empty Ontology: The Eleatic Synthesis of Philosophy, Poetry, and Rhetoric." Philosophy & Rhetoric 27 (1994): 277-299.
Poulakos, John.	"Early Changes in Rhetorical Practice and Understanding: From the Sophists to Isocrates." Texte 8 (1989): 307–324.
---.	"Extending and Correcting the Rhetorical Tradition: Aristotle's Perception of the Sophists. Ed. Christopher Lyle Johnstone. Theory, Text, Context: Issues in Greek Rhetoric and Oratory. Albany : State U of New York P, 1996. 45-63.
---.	"Gorgias' and Isocrates' Use of the Encomium." Southern Communication Journal 51 (1986): 300–307.
---.	"Interpreting Sophistical Rhetoric: A Response to Schiappa." Philosophy & Rhetoric 23 (1990): 218–228.
---.	"Rhetoric, the Sophists, and the Possible." Communication Monographs 51 (1984): 215–226.
---.	Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1995.
---.	"Toward a Sophistic Definition of Rhetoric." Philosophy & Rhetoric 16 (1983): 35–48.
Pullman, George L.	"Reconsidering Sophistic Rhetoric in Light of Skeptical Epistemology." Rhetoric Review 13 (1994): 50-68.
de Romilly, Jacqueline.	Magic and Rhetoric in Ancient Greece. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1975.
---.	The Great Sophists in Periclean Athens. Oxford: Clarendon, 1992.
Rossetti, Livio.	"The Rhetoric of Zeno's Paradoxes." Philosophy & Rhetoric 21 (1988): 145-152.
Scenters-Zapico, John.	"The Case for the Sophists." Rhetoric Review 11 (1993): 352– .
Schiappa, Edward.	"History and Neo-Sophistic Criticism: A Reply to Poulakos." Philosophy & Rhetoric 23 (1990): 307–315.
---.	"Neo-Sophistic Rhetorical Criticism or the Historical Reconstruction of Sophistic Doctrines?" Philosophy & Rhetoric 23 (1990): 192–217.
---.	Protagoras and Logos: A Study in Greek Philosophy and Rhetoric. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1991.
---.	"Some of My Best Friends Are Sophists: A Response to Scott Consigny." Rhetoric Review 14 (1996): 272-279.
Sullivan, Dale.	"Kairos and the Rhetoric of Belief." Quarterly Journal of Speech 78 (1992): 317–332.
Ward, John O.	"Magic and Rhetoric from Antiquity to the Renaissance: Some Ruminations." Rhetorica 6 (1988): 57–118.
Wheeler, E. L.	"Sophistic Interpretations and Greek Treaties." Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 25 (1984): 253-274.
Wright, M. R.	"Presocratics and Sophists." Phronesis 40 (1995): 118– .