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INTRODUCTION 7(Ep. I 1-3).Compare also Ep. VII 10, where, as in Busiris, further advice ispromised at some unspecified time in the future (although the reasonfor putting it off is not the written medium itself, but the importanceof speed): en 8' dviThis idea is a variant on the in captatio beneuolentiae where thespeaker enumerates factors which may prevent her or him fromdoing justice to the theme in hand: cf. e.g. ad Nic. 1 (the shortfallbetween the work as conceived in the writer's imagination and thework as seen by the public), Phil. 24—8.That the written word is a poor substitute for 'live' communicationis the theme of the discourse On the Sophists by Isocrates' contemporaryAlcidamas, whose advocacy of improvisation as opposedto written composition is developed by Plato in the Phaedrus into amore fundamental critique of writing (Ep. I 3 is probably influencedby Phaedrus: cf. esp. Phaedrus 275e (the written; del).Isocrates' 'apologies' for communicating in writing, in Busiris and inthe two Letters cited, attest to the influence of the attack on thewritten word; they also develop a distinctively Isocratean line ofresponse. Alcidamas depicts writing as slow and laborious, and thereforestale: unable to respond smartly to changing circumstances (seee.g. On the Sophists 10 9eTfjaai 8But a letter sent to someone faraway or outside one's circle provides quicker, more timely advicethan would be possible if it were necessary to wait for a face-to-faceencounter. The idea is developed further at Philip 25-9. 6 There,Isocrates acknowledges the advantages of being able to deliver whatone has to say in person (not through the medium of writing), butmay well be an echo of what has been transmitted as the title of
8 INTRODUCTIONhis inference from this is that written composition is harder thanimprovisation—not easier, as Alcidamas claims. Moreover, sophisticationsof oral delivery (like ornaments of style, of which Isocratesis no longer capable because of his age) tend to obscure what isreally at issue (i
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198 BIBLIOGRAPHYCarpenter, T.H., 19
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200 BIBLIOGRAPHYJebb, R.C., and San
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202 BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1976: Isokrates (
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204 INDEX LOCORUMAristobulusFGrH 13
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