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The rhetoric of conspiracy in ancient Athens / Joseph Roisman.
LIBRA PA3264 .R65 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roisman, Joseph, 1946-
- Series:
- Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
- The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek--History and criticism.
- Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek.
- Conspiracies--Greece--Athens--History--To 1500.
- Conspiracies.
- Rhetoric--Political aspects--Greece--Athens.
- Rhetoric.
- Politics and literature--Greece--Athens.
- Politics and literature.
- Rhetoric--Political aspects.
- History.
- Athens (Greece)--Politics and government.
- Athens (Greece).
- Conspiracies in literature.
- Rhetoric, Ancient.
- Oratory, Ancient.
- Greece--Athens.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 199 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- Original and stimulating."--Paul Cartledge, author of "Spartan Reflections" "This is a work of superior scholarship."--Edwin M. Carawan, author of "Rhetoric and the Law of Draco
- Contents:
- The Athenian Conspiracy and Its Vocabulary 2
- Positive Plotting 7
- 1 Plotting Homicide 11
- 2 Plotting and Other People's Possessions 19
- Plotting and Contested Inheritances: Isaeus 19
- Plotting and Demosthenes' Inheritance 22
- Collusions to Appropriate Contested Inheritances 27
- Plotting, Desire, and Damage 31
- Plotting Borrowers and Lenders 35
- 3 Legal Plots and Traps 44
- Plots to Obstruct Litigation: Demosthenes and the Challenge of Antidosis 45
- The Choregus's Homicide Trial (Ant. 6) 47
- Framing in Crime: Andocides 51
- Framing in Homicide 54
- Legal Traps: Stephanus and Epaenetus 58
- Plots and Entrapments: Apollodorus and Nicostratus 62
- 4 Political Conspiracies: Plots against the City and Its Regime 66
- Plotting in Aristophanes and Thucydides 66
- The Legacy of Oligarchic Conspiracies: Andocides and Hetaireiai 69
- The Legacy of Oligarchic Conspiracies: Lysias and the Thirty 72
- Plotting Politicians and Public Officials 85
- 5 Plotting Legislation and Political Measures 95
- Demosthenes' Against Aristocrates (Dem. 23) 96
- Demosthenes' Against Timocrates (Dem. 24) 103
- Plotting Motions and Honors 114
- 6 Foreign and Domestic Plotters 118
- 7 International Conspiracies 133
- Plotting War: Philip and the Fourth Sacred War 133
- Plotting in International Trade 145
- Conclusion: Conspiracy Theories, Ancient and Modern 151
- Appendix A Demosthenes 32. Against Zenothemis 161
- Appendix B The Date and Background of Aristocrates' Decree 165
- Index Locorum 187.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-179) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0520247876
- OCLC:
- 62090782
- Publisher Number:
- 9780520247871
- Online:
- Publisher description
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