The rhetoric of the past in demosthenes and aeschines : oratory, history, and politics in classical Athens / Guy Westwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Westwood, Guy, author.

Series:

Oxford classical monographs.

Oxford Classical Monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Demosthenes--Criticism and interpretation.

Demosthenes.

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

Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek.

Rhetoric, Ancient--History and criticism.

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Oratory, Ancient--History and criticism.

Oratory, Ancient.

Political oratory--Greece--History and criticism.

Political oratory.

Politics and government.

Athens (Greece)--Politics and government--Early works to 1800.

Athens (Greece).

Greece.

Greece--Athens.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Early works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 pages).

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

This work examines how politicians in late classical Athens made persuasive use of the city's past when addressing mass citizen audiences, especially in the law courts and Assembly. It focuses on Demosthenes and Aeschines-both prominent statesmen, and bitter rivals-as its case-study orators. Recent scholarly treatments of how the Athenians remembered their past tend to concentrate on collective processes; to complement these, this work looks at the rhetorical strategies devised by individual orators, examining what it meant for Demosthenes or Aeschines to present particular 'historical' examples (or paradigms/paradeigmata), arguments, and illustrations in particular contexts.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-189013-8

0-19-259911-9

0-19-259912-7