The orators and their treatment of the recent past / edited by Aggelos Kapellos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kapellos, Aggelos, editor.

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; Volume 133.

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; Volume 133

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oratory, Ancient.

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

Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (X, 531 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This volume focuses on the representation of the recent past in classical Athenian oratory and investigates the ability of the orators to interpret it according to their interests; the inability of the Athenians to make an objective assessment of it; and the unwillingness of the citizens to hear the truth, make self-criticism and take responsibility for bad results. Twenty-eight scholars have written chapters to this end, dealing with a wide range of themes, in terms both of contents and of chronology, from the fifth to the fourth century B.C. Each contributor has written a chapter that analyzes one or more historical events mentioned or alluded in the corpus of the Attic orators and covers the three species of Attic oratory. Chapters that treat other issues collectively are also included. The common feature of each contribution is an outline of the recent events that took place and influenced the citizens and/or the city of Athens and its juxtaposition with their rhetorical treatment by the orators either by comparing the rhetorical texts with the historical sources and/or by examining the rhetorical means through which the speakers model the recent past. This book aims at advanced students and professional scholars. This volume focuses on the representation of the recent past in classical Athenian oratory and investigates: the ability of the orators to interpret it according to their interests; the inability of the Athenians to make an objective assessment of persons and events of the recent past and their unwillingness to hear the truth, make self-criticism and take responsibility for bad results.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Fig. 1: Peter Rhodes

The Orators and their Treatment of the Recent Past: Introduction

Methodical Remarks on the ‘Truthfulness’ of Oratorical Narrative

Antiphon and the Recent Past

[Lysias], 20 for Polystratus: Polystratus and the Coup of 411 B.C.

Andocides, the Spartans, and the Thirty

Recent Events in Assembly Speeches and [Andocides] On the Peace

Lysias’ Against the Subversion of the Ancestral Constitution of Athens: A Past not to be Forgotten

The Athenian Civil War according to Lysias’ Funeral Oration

Lysias’ Speech 14 and the Use of the Recent Past for Political Purposes

Plato’s Menexenus on the Sea Battle-trial of Arginousai and the Battle of Aegospotami

Isocrates and the Peloponnesian War

Back to the Future: Temporal Adjustments in Isocrates

The Recent Past in Isaeus’ Forensic Speeches

The Forensic Time Machine: Play on Times in Apollodorus’ Against Timotheus

Family Portraits in Demosthenes’ Inheritance Speeches: Between Rhetoric & History

Reusing Invective: Demosthenes on Androtion’s Past

A Tale of Two Sea-battles: Demosthenes’ Praise of Chabrias in the Speech Against Leptines

The Rhetoric of Deflection: Demosthenes’s Funeral Oration as Propaganda

Demosthenes, between Fake News and Alternative Facts

Facts, Time, and Imagination in Demosthenes and Aeschines

Peace and War with Philip: Aeschines’ Against Ctesiphon on the Recent Past

Lycurgus and the Past

Remembering Chaeronea in Hyperides

Hyperides, Diondas, and the First Ascendancy of Demades

Hegesippus and his Treatment of the Recent Past

Dinarchus, the ‘Recent’ and the ‘Very Recent’ Past: Lessons from Aeschines, Demosthenes and Lycurgus?

Remembering Injustice as the Perpetrator? Athenian Orators, Cultural Memory, and the Athenian Conquest of Samos

State Inscriptions from the Recent Past in the Attic Orators

The Rhetoric to Alexander and its Political and Historical Context: The Mystery of a (Quasi-) Occultation

List of Contributors

General Index

Index of Passages

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

3-11-079187-0