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The Attic Orators

Edited by Edwin Carawan

Price: £29.00 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-927993-7
Publication date: 22 March 2007
350 pages, 216x138 mm
Series: Oxford Readings in Classical Studies
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Focuses on the intersection of law and rhetoric, a topic of current interest
Covers a wide range of topics and represents a broad spectrum of opinion, while exploring the connecting theme of the imagined community

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 technique for adapting documentary evidence to common-sense notions about probable motives and typical characters; and profiling the jury as the ultimate arbiter of values. An Introduction by the editor explores the speechwriter's art in terms of the imagined community. Four essays appear in English here for the first time, and all Greek has been translated.

Readership: Scholars and students of classics, ancient history, law, political thought.

Contents

Introduction: The Speechwriter's Art and the Imagined Community , Edwin Carawan

I. The Lost Art and the First Written Speeches

1. The Written Plea of the Logographer , Marius Lavency

2. Lysias and his Clients , Stephen Usher

3. Who Was Corax? , Thomas Cole

4. Adultery by the Book: Lysias 1 (On the Murder of Eratosthenes) and Comic Diegesis , John R. Porter

II. The Tools of Argument: Procedure and Proof

5. Demosthenes as Advocate: The Functions and Methods of Legal Consultants in Classical Athens , Hans Julius Wolff, with an epilogue by Gerhard Thur

6. Law and Equity in the Attic Trial , Harald Meyer-Laurin

7. Social Relations on Stage: Witnesses in Classical Athens , S. C. Humphreys

8. The Nature of Proofs in Antiphon , Michael Gagarin

9. `Artless Proofs' in Aristotle and the Orators , Christopher Carey

10. Torture and Rhetoric in Athens , David Mirhady

III. Casting the Jury

11. Ability and Education: The Power of Persuasion , Josiah Ober

12. `Lady Chatterley's Lover' and the Attic Orators: The Social Composition of the Athenian Jury , Stephen Todd

13. Arguments from Precedent in the Attic Orators , Lene Rubinstein

14. Politics as Literature: Demosthenes and the Burden of the Athenian Past , Harvey Yunis

Authors, editors, and contributors

Edited by Edwin Carawan, Professor of Classics, Missouri State University

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