Poet and Orator : A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens / Andreas Markantonatos, Eleni Volonaki.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Markantonatos, Andreas, Editor.

Volonaki, Eleni, Editor.

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 74.

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; 74

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oratory, Ancient.

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

Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek.

Greek poetry, Hellenistic--History and criticism.

Greek poetry, Hellenistic.

Democracy--Greece--History--To 1500.

Democracy.

Athens (Greece)--Politics and government--To 1500.

Athens (Greece).

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This multiauthored volume, as well as bringing into clearer focus the notion of drama and oratory as important media of public inquiry and critique, aims to generate significant attention to the unified intentions of the dramatist and the orator to establish favourable conditions of internal stability in democratic Athens. We hope that readers both enjoy and find valuable their engagement with these ideas and beliefs regarding the indissoluble bond between oratorical expertise and dramatic artistry. This exciting collection of studies by worldwide acclaimed classicists and acute younger Hellenists is envisaged as part of the general effort, almost unanimously acknowledged as valid and productive, to explore the impact of formalized speech in particular and craftsmanship rhetoric in general upon Attic drama as a moral and educational force in the Athenian city-state. Both poet and orator seek to deepen the central tensions of their work and to enlarge the main themes of their texts to even broader terms by investing in the art of rhetoric, whilst at the same time, through a skillful handling of events, evaluating the past and establishing standards or ideology.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Part I: Rhetoric in Attic Drama

Hecuba's Rhetoric / Avezzù, Guido

The Rhetoric of Erôs in Menander's Samia / Fountoulakis, Andreas

Competitive Vocal Performance in Aristophanes' Knights / Hall, Edith

Fragments of Euripidean Rhetoric / Karamanou, Ioanna

Praise, Past and Ponytails / Lysgaard Lech, Marcel

Greek Tragedy and Attic Oratory / Markantonatos, Andreas

'Do you see this, natives of this land?' / Rodighiero, Andrea

Justifying Murder and Rejecting Revenge / Scafuro, Adele C.

Part II: Politics, Rhetoric and Poetry

Drama and Democracy / Carey, Chris

From the Ancient Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry: Archaic Moral Values and Political Behaviour in Aristophanes' Frogs / Perysinakis, Ioannis N.

Aspects of Epinician Rhetoric and the Democratic polis / Sotiriou, Margarita

Performing the Past in Lycurgus' Speech Against Leocrates / Volonaki, Eleni

Part III: Drama in Attic Oratory

Rhetoric, Poetry and the agelaioi sophistai / Alexiou, Evangelos

The Orators and Greek Drama / Edwards, Mike

Dramatic Elements as Rhetorical Means in Hyperides' Timandrus / Horváth, László

Thespians in the Law-Court / Seraphim, Andreas

Part IV: Society, Law and Drama

The Reception of Rhetoric in Greek Drama of the Fifth Century BCE / Frangakis, Penelope

Families and Family Relationships in the Speeches of Isaios and in Middle and New Comedy / Griffith-Williams, Brenda

Aeschylus' Eumenides / Harris, Edward M.

List of Contributors

General Index

Index Locorum

Index of Greek Words

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

9783110626988

3110626985

9783110629729

3110629720

OCLC:

1097973212