Coopting, Decoupling, or Both? Stories of Peoplehood in Antiquity

• In Event: In Plato and Beyond

Brief Overview

I use Rogers Smith's framework of people-making to discuss how three ancients - Plato, Isocrates, and John Chrysostom - went about their projects of people-making in their writings, with special attention to the rhetorical strategies they employed.

Author

• Andreas Avgousti, Simon Fraser University