Genos dikanikon
Subtitle: amateur and professional speech in the courtrooms of classical Athens
By: Victor Bers.
Series: Hellenic studies -- 33
Publisher: Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University; Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780674032033
Subjects: Forensic orations -- Greece -- Athens -- History; Forensic oratory -- History; Rhetoric, Ancient
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The challenge of court speech; title: Amateur litigants, amateur speakers; title: Natural and artificial speech from Homer to Hyperides : a brief sketch; title: Terrors of the courtroom; title: Performance as evidence; title: Appeals to pity and displays of anger; title: Tactics, amateur and professional.