The orator Demades : classical Greece reimagined through rhetoric / Sviatoslav Dmitriev.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dmitriev, Sviatoslav, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Demades, approximately 380 B.C.-319 B.C.

Demades.

Orators--Greece--Biography.

Orators.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 pages).

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press 2021

Summary:

This is a monograph, in English, about Demades, an influential Athenian politician and a collaborator of many leaders of classical Greece, including Alexander the Great and Demosthenes. Reflecting that most of the available sources about Demades belong to the Roman imperial period, this book proceeds from presenting the figure of Demades as a later rhetorical construct to revealing the problematic nature of our overall knowledge about classical Greece.

Contents:

The Orator Demades INTRODUCTION: Approximating the historical Demades 1. Making sense of the evidence 2. Texts and contexts 3. The rhetorical persona of Demades 4. Paideia: education with edification 5. The art of being earnest 6. Demades the politician 7. History, rhetoric, and legends 8. Athenian political rhetoric 9. Demades's last years and words EPILOGUE: Constructing the rhetorical Demades Abbreviations and select bibliography

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-751785-4

0-19-751783-8

0-19-751784-6