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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453562903321

Titolo

Oxford readings in the Attic orators [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Edwin Carawan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

9786611164898

1-281-16489-5

0-19-153556-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (475 p.)

Collana

Oxford readings in classical studies

Classificazione

18.43

Altri autori (Persone)

CarawanEdwin

Disciplina

885/.0109

Soggetti

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

Political oratory - Greece - Athens

Rhetoric, Ancient

Oratory, Ancient

Electronic books.

Athens (Greece) Intellectual life

Athens (Greece) Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [400]-430) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The written plea of the logographer / Marius Lavency -- Lysias and his clients / Stephen Usher -- Who was Corax? / Thomas Cole -- Adultery by the book : Lysias 1 (On the murder of Eratosthenes) and comic diēgēsis / John R. Porter -- Demosthenes as advocate : the functions and methods of legal consultants in classical Athens / Hans Julius Wolff ; with an epilogue by Gerhard Thür -- Law and equity in the Attic trial / Harald Meyer-Laurin -- Social relations on stage : witnesses in classical Athens / S.C. Humphreys -- The nature of proofs in antiphon / Michael Gagarin -- 'Artless proofs' in Aristotle and the orators / Christopher Carey -- Torture and rhetoric in Athens / David Mirhady -- Ability and education : the power of persuasion / Josiah Ober -- Lady Chatterley's lover and the Attic orators : the social composition of the Athenian jury / Stephen Todd -- Arguments from precedent in the Attic oratory / Lene Rubinstein -- Politics as literature : Demosthenes and the burden of the Athenian past / Harvey Yunis.



Sommario/riassunto

A collection of fourteen essays by influential scholars on the `Attic Orators', the ten or so speechwriters who developed rhetoric in democratic Athens from c.420 to c.320 BC. All Greek quotations have been translated. - ;The `Attic Orators' have left us a hundred speeches for lawsuits, a body of work that reveals an important connection between evolving rhetoric and the jury trial. The essays in this volume explore that formative linkage, representing the main directions of recent work on the Orators: the emergence of technical manuals and ghost-written speeches for prospective litigants; the