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 | | 87-126) that the fifth century saw a shift, affecting both visual and verbal narrative, from 'aristocratic temporality' (focussed on self-validation by reference to the, mostly mythical, past) to 'democratic temporality' (more historical, linear, rational, and centred on the present and immediate future). |
 | | But he does discern a major division between the impact of sophists on Athens before and after 430: prior to that, they were positively engaged with and supportive of democracy; afterwards, they became associated with a disillusioned elite and with increasingly extreme views. |
 | | But Cole, he suggests, badly underrated the formal and substantive advancement of rhetorical practice in the fifth century, when democratic pressures on public speakers led to techniques, not least that of antilogy (polarised debating), which in due course became assimilated into literary (not least, Thucydidean) and philosophical modes of writing/thinking. |
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