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Demostene, "Contro Leptine"
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Demostene, "Contro Leptine" : Introduzione, Traduzione e Commento Storico

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Format Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10 311048868X
ISBN-13 9783110488685
Publisher De Gruyter
Imprint De Gruyter
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Oct 24th, 2016
Print length 539 Pages
Weight 905 grams
Ksh 26,000.00
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The series publishes important new editions of and commentaries on texts from Greco-Roman antiquity, especially annotated editions of texts surviving only in fragments. Due to its programmatically wide range the series provides an essential basis for the study of ancient literature.

The book provides a comprehensive study of Demosthenes’ Against Leptines as a document for the reconstruction of Athenian fourth-century politics, law and public economy. The importance of the speech has been increasingly recognized in recent years, with research on Athenian lawmaking highlighting its centrality and the inadequacy of previous accounts, and work on honours for benefactors and on the liturgical system stressing its importance for understanding the development and conceptualization of euergetism. The speech is the earliest and only extensive ancient account of the ideological, theoretical and moral underpinnings of these institutions and developments. The introduction and commentary offer a comprehensive treatment of these aspects, providing historians with key insights into Athenians conceptions of public service, public honour and reciprocity. Other work has stressed the importance of the speech for the study of the Greek public economy, and the introduction and commentary make these aspects central. The Against Leptines stands at the crossroads of some of the liveliest and most important current discussions in Greek history, and this commentary aims to advance our historical understanding in these areas.

Il volume offre un’introduzione, traduzione e commento del primo discorso politico pronunciato da Demostene, la Contro Leptine. Analizza il discorso come documento per la ricostruzione delle istituzioni politiche, della legge e dell’economia pubblica dell’Atene di IV secolo. Fa luce sulle istituzioni della nomothesia, sull’evergetismo ateniese e l’economia degli onori, e sul funzionamento e i dibattiti di politica economica.

"Canevaros kenntnisreiche Kommentare, ebenso seine italienische Übersetzung der Rede und die ausführliche Einleitung, können allen Lesern nachdrücklich empfohlen werden, die sich für griechische Rhetorik, Demosthenes, athenische Rechts-,Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte interessieren."
Johannes Engels in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.10.73

"[...] il poderoso e dottissimo volume [...]"
Pietro Cobetto Ghiggia in: Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft 70.3-4 (2017), 144-148


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