Finishing up on Sappho, with Homeric echoes still reverberating. The indicatively masculine, assertive and insertive, agency of "words and deeds/words as deeds" that suffuses the contestatory civic imaginary that shapes the rhetorical perspective of the Athenians and, eventually, after a few twists and turns, the Romans. Turning today to Gorgias' "Encomium of Helen," an exoneration of Helen that actually re-enacts her abduction, and a celebration of rhetoric as productive and subversive force that may amount to a bit of titillation culminating in patriarchal-incumbent reassurance...
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