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Witnesses and Evidence in Ancient Greek Literature / edited by Andreas Markantonatos, Vasileios Liotsakis and Andreas Serafim.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 123.
- Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 1868-4785 ; volume 123
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Witnesses--Greece--Athens.
- Witnesses.
- Democracy--Greece--Athens--History--To 1500.
- Democracy.
- Greece--Athens.
- History.
- Classical literature.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (VII, 306 pages).
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- text file PDF
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Witness and Evidence in Legal, Oratorical and Other Literary Contexts in Antiquity
- Part I: Written and Oral Evidence
- The Role of Written Documents in Athenian Trials
- Rumour and Hearsay Evidence in the Athenian Law-courts
- Part II: The Rhetoric of Information-Gathering and Decision- Making
- Audience Memory as Evidence in the Trial on the Crown
- Additional Information in Witness Testimonies in Classical Athens
- Self-Quotations as Witnesses and Evidence: The Case of Isocrates' Antidosis
- Antiphon's Witnesses: Extending the Earliest Greek Theories of Argumentation
- Part III: Scripting Witnesses and Evidence: Prose and Verse Texts
- The Questions in (Answering the Question about the Historicity of) Plato's Apology of Socrates
- Plato's Apology of Socrates: The Rhetoric of Socrates' Defence and the Foundation of the Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry
- Witnesses and Evidence in Thucydides: The Institutional and Rhetorical Context of the Digression on the Tyrannicides
- The Torture of Prometheus
- Poet, Patron, Message: Witness-Roles and the Game of Truth in Epinician Eidography
- Part IV: The Cultural Workings of Witnesses and Evidence
- Information and Decision in Sophocles' Trachiniae and Euripides' Medea and Ino
- Scandals as Evidence in Attic Forensic Oratory: The Case of Aeschines' Against Timarchus
- Notes on Editors and Contributors
- General Index
- Index Locorum
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 11, 2022).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1939 Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Witnesses and Evidence in Ancient Greek Literature /.
- ISBN:
- 9783110751970
- 3110751976
- Publisher Number:
- 40030999016
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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