A Distinctly Rhetorical Space; Eusynoptos and the Greek Council-House

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Notes

1. I rely here on the argument by Ferrari (2002) that the old temple of Athena was left standing and “was the core of an extensive choreography of ruins that is the background against which the new Periclean buildings acquire their meaning (11). The imagined reconstruction is shown in Ferrari Figure 4, p. 25. See also Camp 42.

2. In Phaedrus, Plato imagines a heavenly theater with each “wedge” or column populated by the followers of a particular god, striving to move up to the god and the divine forms, and away from the theatrical imitation below, reversing the traditional valuation of eusynoptic political and theatrical structures.

3. I’ve argued elsewhere (Philosophy and Rhetoric, Spring 2018, Vol 51.1, 27-52.) that enthymemes are not syllogisms, but foregrounded narrative details that, taken together, reveal the story’s point.