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Genos dikanikon : amateur and professional speech in the courtrooms of classical Athens / Victor Bers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bers, Victor.
- Series:
- Hellenic studies ; 33.
- Hellenic studies ; 33
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Forensic orations--Greece--Athens--History.
- Forensic orations.
- Forensic oratory--History.
- Forensic oratory.
- Rhetoric, Ancient.
- History.
- Greece--Athens.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 159 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- The challenge of court speech
- Amateur litigants, amateur speakers
- Natural and artificial speech from Homer to Hyperides: a brief sketch
- Terrors of the courtroom
- Performance as evidence
- Appeals to pity and displays of anger
- Tactics, amateur and professional.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-137) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780674032033
- 0674032039
- OCLC:
- 319063968
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