User-database: Gorgias' Enconium of Helen Greek and English
It's been a busy summer and it may get busier once school begins. Jim has done a wonderful job of filling in for me while I've been busy this summer getting married, honeymooning, relocating, etc. I am about to start a new PhD program and I've been very busy preparing myself for all the demands that will make on my life, but I just finished a major translation project I had been working on so I figured it was a good time to pause and give something back to the BibleWorks community. (notice how many times I used "busy"??)
The latest release is a short, but good one. It is Gorgias' Enconium of Helen. Of course Gorgias is one of those famous names in classical history. He flourishes during the time of Socrates and is one of the sophists (teachers of rhetoric) who were rather looked down upon by Socrates but whom many associated with Socrates much to Socrates' detriment. One of the main things sophists were known for was their ability to make the lesser argument the greater, i.e. to be able to argue both sides of any issue. In our age, this sort of thing is connected with postmodern relativism and how everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but that there is no absolute right or wrong, black or white. While postmodernism is not the same as the line of thinking from Gorgias' time it is interesting to see how some things never change (how very un-postmodern?)
DOWNLOAD Gorgias in Greek and in English.
Instructions for installation in the readme files part of the .zip.
The latest release is a short, but good one. It is Gorgias' Enconium of Helen. Of course Gorgias is one of those famous names in classical history. He flourishes during the time of Socrates and is one of the sophists (teachers of rhetoric) who were rather looked down upon by Socrates but whom many associated with Socrates much to Socrates' detriment. One of the main things sophists were known for was their ability to make the lesser argument the greater, i.e. to be able to argue both sides of any issue. In our age, this sort of thing is connected with postmodern relativism and how everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but that there is no absolute right or wrong, black or white. While postmodernism is not the same as the line of thinking from Gorgias' time it is interesting to see how some things never change (how very un-postmodern?)
DOWNLOAD Gorgias in Greek and in English.
Instructions for installation in the readme files part of the .zip.
posted by Michael Hanel at 9:27 AM
2 Comments:
I have BW 6.0 and installed the Gorgias Greek successfully, but when I have tried to install the English, but when compiling I received "the specified locale string is invalid" I searched BW help, and could not find "locale string." Help.
Thanks,
Fred Long
i think that, from the standpoint of Socratic or Platonic philosophy, Gorgias does not really count as a Sophist, since he did not pretend to teach virtue.
that's what makes the dialogue named for him so compelling. a rhetorician in the dialogue comes out to be a kind of pseudo-philosopher. what makes the near likeness between rhetoric and philosophy compelling is, in part, precisely that both disclaim the possession of wisdom and both hold up speaking as of the highest importance.
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