The documents in the attic orators : laws and decrees in the public speeches of the Demosthenic Corpus / Dr Mirko Canevaro ; with a chapter by E.M. Harris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Canevaro, Mirko.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek.

Orators--Greece.

Orators.

Oratory, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (408 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Canevaro studies the 'state' documents preserved in the public speeches of the Demosthenic corpus. Offering a comprehensive account of the documents in the corpora of the orators and in the manuscript tradition, Canevaro summarizes previous scholarship and delineates a new methodology for analyzing the documents.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Tables""; ""Abbreviations""; ""1. Introduction: Documents, Speeches, and their Tradition""; ""1.1 History of scholarship""; ""1.2 The documents in the medieval tradition""; ""1.3 Stichometry and the presence of the documents in the ancient tradition""; ""1.4 Methodological principles""; ""2. The Against Aristocrates (Dem. 23)""; ""2.1 Dem. 23.22: intentional homicide and wounding, arson, and poisoning""; ""2.2 Dem. 23.28: prohibition of torture and ransom""; ""2.3 Dem. 23.37: the killing of a murderer""

""2.4 Dem. 23.44: persecution and plunder of a murderer""""2.5 Dem. 23.51: charges of homicide for indictments against murderers""; ""2.6 Dem. 23.53: lawful homicide""; ""2.7 Dem. 23.60: killing in defence of one�s own goods is legitimate""; ""2.8 Dem. 23.62: the entrenchment clause""; ""2.9 Dem. 23.82: hostages""; ""2.10 Dem. 23.86: laws ad hominem""; ""2.11 Dem. 23.87: the hierarchy of laws and decrees""; ""3. The Against Timocrates (Dem. 24)""; ""3.1 The documents on nomothesia (Dem. 24.20�3 and 33)""; ""3.1.1 Dem. 24.20�3: the procedure of nomothesia""

""3.1.2 Dem. 24.33: nomothesia and opposing laws""""3.2 Dem. 24.27: Epicrates� decree""; ""3.3 Dem. 24.39�40 and 71: the law of Timocrates""; ""3.4 Dem. 24.42: Diocles� law""; ""3.5 Dem. 24.45: adeia for atimoi and debtors""; ""3.6 Dem. 24.50: the law on supplication""; ""3.7 Dem. 24.54: res iudicata""; ""3.8 Dem. 24.56: valid and invalid acts after the Thirty""; ""3.9 Dem. 24.59: prohibition on laws ad hominem""; ""3.10 Dem. 24.63: another law of Timocrates""; ""3.11 Dem. 24.105: law on theft, maltreatment of parents, and draft-dodging""; ""3.12 Dem. 24.149�51: the Heliastic oath""

""4. The Against Neaera ([Dem.] 59)""""4.1 [Dem.] 59.16: the law on marrying foreigners""; ""4.2 [Dem.] 59.52: giving an alien woman in marriage to an Athenian citizen""; ""4.3 [Dem.] 59.87: the law on seduction""; ""4.4 [Dem.] 59.104: the decree of naturalization of the Plataeans""; ""5. The Against Meidias (Dem. 21)""; ""5.1 The first document about the probole (Dem. 21.8)""; ""5.2 The second document about the probole (Dem. 21.10)""; ""5.3 The law on hybris (Dem. 21.47)""; ""5.4 The law on arbitration (Dem. 21.94)""; ""5.5 The law on bribery (Dem. 21.113)""

""6. The Speech On the Crown (Dem. 18)""""6.1 Dem. 18.29: the decree of Demosthenes about the envoys""; ""6.2 Dem. 18.37�8: the decree of Callisthenes""; ""6.3 Dem. 18.73�4: the decree of Eubulus about Leodamas and the twenty ships""; ""6.4 Dem. 18.75: the decree of Aristophon""; ""6.5 Dem. 18.84: Aristonicus honours Demosthenes""; ""6.6 Dem. 18.90�1, 92: the decrees of the Byzantines, the Perinthians, and the Chersonesitans""; ""6.7 Dem. 18.105: the decree about Demosthenes� trierarchic law""; ""6.8 Dem. 18.106: the registers of trierarchs""

""6.9 Dem. 18.115: the decree granting honours to Nausicles""

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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ISBN:

0-19-175549-4

0-19-164624-5

OCLC:

857078708