Oxford readings in the Attic orators / edited by Edwin Carawan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carawan, Edwin.

Series:

Oxford readings in classical studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek--History and criticism.

Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek.

Political oratory.

Athens (Greece)--Intellectual life.

Athens (Greece).

Athens (Greece)--Politics and government.

Political oratory--Greece--Athens.

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Oratory, Ancient.

Greece--Athens.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 450 pages ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Attic orators

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [400]-430) and index.

ISBN:

9780199279937

0199279934

9780199279920

0199279926

OCLC:

76864230