Download or read book A Commentary on Isocrates' Busiris written by Niall Livingstone and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2001 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first commentary on Isocrates "Busiris" explores the work s contribution to rhetorical theory, its parody of Plato s "Republic," and its strategies in advertising Isocratean political rhetoric as a middle way between sophistic education and the abstruse studies of Plato s Academy.