The essays included in the present volume offer us a number of ways of understanding philosophies of communication. Prompted by such contemporary phenomena as the explosion of technological advances in mass communication or the pervasive uses of the computer and the Internet, the authors here represented have turned to our Hellenic heritage for ideas that can help us make sense of the ways in which we communicate today. Although each essay differs from the rest in approach, purpose and scope, they all converge on the notion that the problems of communication since antiquity remain fundamentally the same. Accordingly, they all address the same three units of analysis that Greek thinkers addressed many centuries ago: the logos, the speaker, and the listener (s). At the same time, they all gesture, some more explicitly than others, toward the formal character of dialogue and rhetoric, the two modes of communication that occupy center stage in ancient Greek thought.

The essay in this volume, along with the essays in Volume One, are dedicated to Socrates in honor of the 2400th anniversary of his death. As "our first theorist of communication", Socrates gave us not only a manner of engaging each other interpersonally, but also a method for testing and challenging each other's assumptions in public.

Consistent with the complex make up of our world today, contributors have advanced principles of communication that complicate the interpersonal and communicative exchanges Socrates had envisioned as most beneficial to his polis. But they have also kept Socrates' dream alive to-date, 2400 years later- namely, the hope that our public discussions, debates, and deliberations will one day coincide with the best of our dialogical interactions.

VOLUME 2 CONTENTS

1. EDITOR INTRODUCTION

2. JOHN P. ANTON

THE ART OF COMMUNICATION AND ITS TRANSFORMATION

3. LINDA ARDITO

MOUSIKE AND THE PRINCIPLES OF INSPIRATION AND COMMUNICATION

4. ANTONIA ATANASSOVA

"LITTLE IMAGES OF THE TRUTH": THE DEFINITION OF RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE IN GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS AND GREGORY PALAMAS

5. KEVIN J. AYOTTE

THE ART OF WAR: ARISTOTLE ON THE RHETORIC AND FEAR

6.ADRIENNE E. CHRISTIANSEN & JOHANNA HARTELIUS

I SEE YOUR POINT: VISUAL ARGUMENT AND RHETORIC FOR THE WWW

7. EKATERINA HASKINS

ARISTOTLE'S ENCOXICAL METHOD: CULTURAL CONTEXTS AND SCIENTIFIC AUTHORITY.

8. GOTTFRIED HEINEMANN

DEDUCTION AND DIALOGUE. REFLECTIONS ON PLATO'S ASSESSMENT OF WRITING

9. LENORE LANGSDORF

THE HOMECOMING OF RHETORIC

10. MICHAEL LEFF

ISOCRATES, RHETORIC AND THE IDEALIZATION OF CIVIC EDUCATION

11. AIKATERINI LEFKA

"XENOI" DANS LES OEVRES DE PLATON. NOTIONS DE DIALOGUE INTERCULTUREL

12. ELENI MITROPOULOU

LA COMMUNICATION CULTURELLE VIA L' ORDINATEUR

13. VINCENT MUELLER

COMMUNICATING THE SAME INFORMATION TO A HUMAN AND TO A MACHINE: IS THERE A DIFFERENCE IN PRINCIPLE

14. JOHN DURHAM PETERS

DIALOGUE AND EROS IN THE PHAEDRUS

15. CONSTANTINE V. PROIMOS

THE CONCEPT OF ART IN ARISTOTLE'S NICOMACHEAN ETHICS, FROM MIMESIS TO COMMUNICATION.

16. RICHARD L. PURTILL

POETRY, FICTION AND MYTHOLOGY AS MEANS OF COMMUNICATION

17. FRANCOIS RENAUD

GORGIAS ET LE GORGIAS: LA RHETORIQUE IN DIALOGUE

18. THOMAS M. ROBINSON

PLATO ON RHETORICS, SPOKEN AND WRITTEN

19. JASON SEARS

CLEVERNESS, PRACTICAL WISDOM AND DELIBERATIVE RHETORIC: ARISTOTLE ON ALCIBIADES

20. JANE S. SUTTON

ON THE STRUCTURE OF RHETORIC IN ARISTOTLE: THE SPACE OF SPEECH, SELF AND OTHER

21. JOANNE WAUGH AND LISA WILKINSON

COMMUNICATION PHILOSOPHY: PLATONIC DIALOGUE AND SOCRATIC METHOD

22. GINA ZAVOTA

BETWEEN DIALOGUE AND MONOLOGUE: THE IMPORTANCE OF SOLILOQUY IN THE WORK OF AUGUSTINE

23. MARGARET D. ZULICK

THE CHOICE OF HOKHMAH: THE BOOK OF PROVERBS AND THE SPREAD OF SOPHISTIC RHETORIC.

24. INDEX NOMINUM