The Attic Orators
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Oxford Readings in Classical Studies
ISBN-10
0199279934
ISBN-13
9780199279937
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 22nd, 2007
Print length
480 Pages
Weight
598 grams
Dimensions
15.40 x 21.70 x 2.60 cms
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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 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.
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