| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 450 pages) |
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Oxford readings in classical studies |
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Oxford readings in classical studies.
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| Contents |
The written plea of the logographer / Marius Lavency -- Lysias and his clients / Stephen Usher -- Who was Corax? / Thomas Cole -- Adultery by the book : Lysias 1 (On the murder of Eratosthenes) and comic diēgēsis / John R. Porter -- Demosthenes as advocate : the functions and methods of legal consultants in classical Athens / Hans Julius Wolff ; with an epilogue by Gerhard Thür -- Law and equity in the Attic trial / Harald Meyer-Laurin -- Social relations on stage : witnesses in classical Athens / S.C. Humphreys -- The nature of proofs in antiphon / Michael Gagarin -- 'Artless proofs' in Aristotle and the orators / Christopher Carey -- Torture and rhetoric in Athens / David Mirhady -- Ability and education : the power of persuasion / Josiah Ober -- Lady Chatterley's lover and the Attic orators : the social composition of the Athenian jury / Stephen Todd -- Arguments from precedent in the Attic oratory / Lene Rubinstein -- Politics as literature : Demosthenes and the burden of the Athenian past / Harvey Yunis |
| Summary |
A collection of fourteen essays by influential scholars on the ̀Attic Orators', the ten or so speechwriters who developed rhetoric in democratic Athens from c.420 to c.320 BC. All Greek quotations have been translated. - ;The ̀Attic Orators' have left us a hundred speeches for lawsuits, a body of work that reveals an important connection between evolving rhetoric and the jury trial. The essays in this volume explore that formative linkage, representing the main directions of recent work on the Orators: the emergence of technical manuals and ghost-written speeches for prospective litigants; the technique for adapting documentary evidence to common-sense notions about probable motives and typical characters; and profiling the jury as the ultimate arbiter of values. An Introduction by the editor explores the speechwriter's art in terms of the imagined community. Four essays appear in English here for the first time, and all Greek has been translated |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 400-430) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek -- History and criticism
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Political oratory -- Greece -- Athens
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Rhetoric, Ancient.
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Oratory, Ancient.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
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Intellectual life
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Oratory, Ancient
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Political oratory
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Politics and government
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Rhetoric, Ancient
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Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek
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Redner
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Proza.
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Grieks.
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Redes.
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Athens (Greece) -- Intellectual life
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Athens (Greece) -- Politics and government
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Greece -- Athens
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Griechenland Altertum
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Athen
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Athene.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Carawan, Edwin
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| LC no. |
2006039353 |
| ISBN |
0191535567 |
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9780191535567 |
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9786611164898 |
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6611164898 |
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1281164895 |
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9781281164896 |
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