The Documents in the Attic Orators

The Documents in the Attic Orators
Author: Mirko Canevaro
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2013-07-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199668906

In this volume Canevaro studies the 'state' documents preserved in the public speeches of the Demosthenic corpus. Offering a comprehensive account of the documents in the corpora of the orators and in the manuscript tradition, Canevaro summarizes previous scholarship and delineates a new methodology for analyzing the documents.

Use and Abuse of Law in the Athenian Courts

Use and Abuse of Law in the Athenian Courts
Author: Chris Carey
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2018-10-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004377891

This timely volume brings together leading scholars and rising researchers in the field to examine the role played by the law in thinking and practice in the legal system of classical Athens. The aim is not to find a single perspective or method for the study of Athenian law but to explore the subject from a variety of different angles. The focus of the collection on ‘use and abuse’ raises fundamental questions about the status of law in the Athenian constitution as well as the use of law(s) in the courts, the nature of law itself, and the elusiveness of a definition of ‘abuse’. An introduction sketches the major developments in the field over the last century.

Animo Decipiendi?

Animo Decipiendi?
Author: Antonio Guzmán
Publisher: Barkhuis
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2019-04-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9492444844

Many new and fruitful avenues of investigation open up when scholars consider forgery as a creative act rather than a crime. We invited authors to contribute work without imposing any restrictions beyond a willingness to consider new approaches to the subject of ancient fakes, forgeries and questions of authenticity. The result is this volume, in which our aim is to display some of the many possibilities available to scholarship. Following Splendide Mendax, this is the latest installment of an ongoing inquiry, conducted by scholars in numerous countries, into how the ancient world-its literature and culture, its history and art-appears when viewed through the lens of fakes and forgeries, sincerities and authenticities, genuine signatures and pseudepigrapha.

The Greek Orators

The Greek Orators
Author: John Frederic Dobson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 374
Release: 1919
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

The Attic Orators

The Attic Orators
Author: Edwin Carawan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2007-03-22
Genre: History
ISBN:

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 Rule of Law in Action in Democratic Athens

The Rule of Law in Action in Democratic Athens
Author: Edward M. Harris
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2013-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199899169

The Law in Action in Democratic Athens is the first extensive study of the importance of the rule of law in Athenian democracy.

Homicide in the Attic Orators

Homicide in the Attic Orators
Author: Christine Plastow
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-01-09
Genre: Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN: 9781032474854

This study identifies specific features in the legal procedure and social perception of homicide in Athens in the time of the orators and examines how these features affected and were represented and utilised in forensic rhetoric. The socially transgressive nature of the crime in Athens resulted in homicide receiving a distinctive treatment in Athenian law, where it was 'set apart' from other crimes in a number of ways, including the courts in which it was tried, the procedures involved, and the fact that uniquely these laws were attributed to Drakon as mytho-historical lawgiver. Plastow explores how four distinctive features of homicide procedure and law at Athens played out in rhetoric: ideology, pollution, relevance, and the connected issues of motive and intent. Through exploration of these rhetorical themes, the volume also provides insight into the popular perceptions of homicide amongst the Athenians, since the orators' speeches make extensive use of persuasive techniques that tap into the deeply held beliefs and ideologies of the jury members. A secondary aim is to explore the effects of the physical context of delivery on the rhetoric of homicide: the courtroom spaces themselves, whether homicide courts or popular courts, with the variable ideologies that their locations and physical attributes provoked, as well as the aspects of ritual that would have been performed physically during a homicide trial. Homicide in the Attic Orators offers insight into this complex subject, and is of interest to anyone with an interest in Athenian law, rhetoric, and society.