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Free speech in classical antiquity / edited by Ineke Sluiter and Ralph M. Rosen.
Van Pelt Library PA3015.P63 P46 2004
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LIBRA PA3015.P63 P46 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Penn-Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values (2nd : 2002 : University of Pennsylvania)
- Series:
- Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum 0169-8958 ; 254.
- Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 0169-8958 ; 254
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Classical literature--History and criticism--Congresses.
- Classical literature.
- Politics and literature--Greece--Congresses.
- Politics and literature.
- Law and literature--History--To 500--Congresses.
- Law and literature.
- Politics and literature--Rome--Congresses.
- Freedom of speech in literature--Congresses.
- Freedom of speech in literature.
- Freedom of speech--Greece--Congresses.
- Freedom of speech.
- Political oratory--Greece--Congresses.
- Political oratory.
- Freedom of speech--Rome--Congresses.
- Political oratory--Rome--Congresses.
- Oratory, Ancient--Congresses.
- Oratory, Ancient.
- History.
- Greece.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 450 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.
- Summary:
- This book contains a diverse collection of essays on the notion of "Free Speech" in classical antiquity. The essays examine such concepts as "freedom of speech," "self-expression," and "censorship," in ancient Greek and Roman culture from historical, philosophical, and literary perspectives.
- Contents:
- Chapter 2 Nereids, Colonies and the Origins of Isegoria / Jeremy McInerney 21
- Chapter 3 Aristocracy and Freedom of Speech in the Greco-Roman World / Kurt A. Raaflaub 41
- Chapter 4 Binding Speeches: Giving Voice to Deadly Thoughts in Greek Epitaphs / Eric Casey 63
- Chapter 5 Women's Free Speech in Greek Tragedy / Hanna M. Roisman 91
- Chapter 6 Aischrology, Shame, and Comedy / Stephen Halliwell 115
- Chapter 7 Harassing the Satirist: The Alleged Attempts to Prosecute Aristophanes / Alan H. Sommerstein 145
- Chapter 8 Making Words Count: Freedom of Speech and Narrative in Thucydides / Emily Greenwood 175
- Chapter 9 Citizen Attribute, Negative Right: A Conceptual Difference Between Ancient and Modern Ideas of Freedom of Speech / D.M. Carter 197
- Chapter 10 The Power to Speak-and not to Listen-in Ancient Athens / Robert W. Wallace 221
- Chapter 11 Free Speech, Courage, and Democratic Deliberation / Ryan K. Balot 233
- Chapter 12 Speaker-Audience Interaction in Athens: A Power Struggle / Joseph Roisman 261
- Chapter 13 Socratic Parrhesia and its Afterlife in Plato's Laws / Marlein van Raalte 279
- Chapter 14 [characters not reproducible] in Aristotle / J.J. Mulhern 313
- Chapter 15 Freedom of Speech and the Roman Republican Army / Stefan G. Chrissanthos 341
- Chapter 16 Speaking Before Superiors: Orpheus in Vergil and Ovid / Victoria Pagan 369
- Chapter 17 Historiography and Freedom of Speech: The Case of Cremutius Cordus / Mary R. McHugh 391
- Chapter 18 Libertas or Licentia? Freedom and Criticism in Roman Satire / Susanna Morton Braund 409.
- Notes:
- Consists of a collection of papers presented at the second Penn-Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values, held in June 2002 at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9004139257
- OCLC:
- 55220120
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