Oxford Readings in the Attic Orators / edited by Edwin Carawan.

Oxford Readings in the Attic Orators /

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...

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Other Authors: Carawan, Edwin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:Oxford readings in classical studies.
Subjects:
Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek > History and criticism.
Political oratory > Greece > Athens.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Oratory, Ancient.
Athens (Greece) > Intellectual life.
Athens (Greece) > Politics and government.
Electronic books.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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