Oxford readings in the Attic orators
By: edited by Edwin Carawan.
Contributors: Carawan, Edwin.
Series: Oxford readings in classical studies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780199279937; 9780199279920
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The written plea of the logographer / Marius Lavency; title: Lysias and his clients / Stephen Usher; title: Who was Corax? / Thomas Cole; title: Adultery by the book : Lysias 1 (on the murder of Eratosthenes) and comic diegesis / John R. Porter; title: Demosthenes as advocate : the functions and methods of legal consultants in classical Athens / Hans Julius Wolff ; with an epilogue by Gerhard Thr; title: Law and equity in the Attic trial / Harald Meyer Laurin; title: Social relations on stage : witnesses in classical Athens / S.C. Humphreys; title: The nature of proofs in antiphon / Michael Gagarin; title: Artless proofs in Aristotle and the orators / Christopher Carey; title: Torture and rhetoric in Athens / David Mirhady; title: Ability and education : the power of persuasion / Josiah Ober; title: Lady Chatterley's lover and the Attic orators : the social composition of the Athenian jury / Stephen Todd; title: Arguments from precedent in the Attic orators / Lene Rubinstein; title: Politics as literature : Demosthenes and the burden of the Athenian past / Harvey Yunis.