Persuasion, Seduction and Reason: between Sophistic Rhetoric and Platonic Dialectic

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to have a covering that allows the elaboration of a tentative map because of the status of rhetoric in the ancient Greek following a line that goes from Gorgias to Aristotle. The text is particularly interested in the relations established between rhetoric, culinary and dialectic, and stops in the term ‘antistrophos’ that seems to have a key role inside the location of rhetoric as an art or as a simple adulatory practice. In order to elaborate this travel we have and approximation to fundamental texts between the story of rhetoric, such as Gorgias’ Encomium of Helen, Plato’s Gorgias and Phaedrus, and Aristotle’s Rhetoric.