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Oxford readings in the Attic orators / edited by Edwin Carawan.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford readings in classical studies.
- Oxford readings in classical studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek--History and criticism.
- Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek.
- Political oratory--Greece--Athens.
- Political oratory.
- Rhetoric, Ancient.
- Oratory, Ancient.
- Athens (Greece)--Intellectual life.
- Athens (Greece).
- Athens (Greece)--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (475 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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
- 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 diegesis / John R. Porter
- Demosthenes as advocate : the functions and methods of legal consultants in classical Athens / Hans Julius Wolff ; with an epilogue by Gerhard Thur
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [400]-430) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786611164898
- 1-281-16489-5
- 0-19-153556-7
- OCLC:
- 476245194
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