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| Author | : Anna Missiou |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 1992-03-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521360098 |
In this study Anna Missiou analyses the ideological content of the speeches of the crypto-oligarch Andokides (active c. 420-390 BC).
| Author | : Stephen Usher |
| Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
| Total Pages | : 406 |
| Release | : 1999-07-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0191584770 |
Speakers address audiences in the earliest Greek literature, but oratory became a distinct genre in the late fifth century and reached its maturity in the fourth. This book traces the development of its techniques by examining the contribution made by each orator. Dr Usher makes the speeches come alive for the reader through an in-depth analysis of the problems of composition and the likely responses of contemporary audiences. His study differs from previous books in its recognition of the richness of the early tradition which made innovation difficult, however, the orators are revealed as men of remarkable talent, versatility, and resource. Antiphon's pioneering role, Lysias' achievement of balance between the parts of the speech, the establishment of oratory as a medium of political thought by Demosthenes and Isocrates, and the individual characteristics of other orators - Andocides, Isaeus, Lycurgus, Hyperides, Dinarchus and Apollodorus - together make a fascinating study in evolution; while the illustrative texts of the orators (which are translated into English) include some of the liveliest and most moving passages in Greek literature.
| Author | : Andocides |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 102 |
| Release | : 1896 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Aggelos Kapellos |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 2014-09-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 3110391112 |
Lysias’ 21st speech “On a charge of taking bribes” is an important example of Attic oratory that sheds significant light on Classical history and society. Delivered after the restoration of democracy in 402 B.C.E., this speech provides information that is critical for our understanding of the relationship between the Athenian demos and aristocrats, Athenian civic institutions (e.g., taxation, liturgies and conscription), religious beliefs, moral values, political behavior, and, in particular, of the legal and rhetorical treatment of embezzlement and bribery. It also supplies unique information about the military engagement of the Athenians at Aegospotami and the role of Alcibiades in the political life of Athens. Despite its importance, however, Lysias’ speech has never been the subject of an extensive study in its own right. This volume seeks to fill that gap by presenting the first systematic commentary on this speech. The author puts much emphasis on its structure, strategy, and argumentation, focusing especially on the tension between the actual practices of the anonymous client of the logographer and civic ideals invoked in the present case. The book is intended to be of interest to classicists, ancient historians and political theorists, but also to the general reader.
| Author | : Yun Lee Too |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2008-06-05 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 9780191553431 |
How does one construct a role for oneself in the fourth-century democratic city? This commentary on Isocrates' Antidosis , which includes a full translation as well as an extensive introduction, demonstrates that a rhetorician may do so by assuming roles that subvert many of the conventions invoked by the genre - a non-speaker in a rhetorical community, a rhetorician in a world where rhetorical performativity has derogatory connotations, a philosopher following the trial of Socrates. Moreover, Yun Lee Too demonstrates how the narrative of 'self' in the Antidosis is to be understood as a sophisticated amalgam of literary, rhetorical, philosophical, and legal discourses.
| Author | : Frances Anne Pownall |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 215 |
| Release | : 2010-02-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0472025678 |
Because of the didactic nature of the historical genre, many scholars ancient and modern have seen connections between history and rhetoric. So far, discussion has centered on fifth-century authors -- Herodotus and Thucydides, along with the sophists and early philosophers. Pownall extends the focus of this discussion into an important period. By focusing on key intellectuals and historians of the fourth century (Plato and the major historians -- Xenophon, Ephorus, and Theopompus), she examines how these prose writers created an aristocratic version of the past as an alternative to the democratic version of the oratorical tradition. Frances Pownall is Professor of History and Classics, University of Alberta.
| Author | : Marshell Bradley |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2012-11-06 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1620321513 |
Who Is Phaedrus? This book delivers answers. Many have said Phaedrus is the most intriguing of Plato's works. Phaedrus is certainly one of the most difficult to follow and fathom. In part this is because the title figure, Phaedrus himself, has remained a mystery. Who Is Phaedrus? takes us on a tour of this intricate dialogue: a work of philosophy and history, and a work of art. In Who Is Phaedrus? we see how and why Phaedrus became involved in the most sensational scandals, both religious and political, in ancient Athens; and yet we see Phaedrus come across as a person remarkably contemporary, someone who could walk through a time seam and be wholly understandable as a soul in the twenty-first century. Perplexed as well as perplexing, Phaedrus, in the final analysis, needs Socrates' timeless philosophy as a salve and therapy, and we follow along as Socrates delivers.
| Author | : Jonas Grethlein |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 363 |
| Release | : 2010-02-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0521110777 |
Investigates literary memory in the fifth century BCE, covering poetry and oratory as well as the first Greek historians.
| Author | : Ralph Rosen |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2017-07-31 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9047400739 |
This volume examines the use of a central concept in the self-definition of any Greek speaking male: Andreia, the notion of courage and manliness. The nature and use of value terms quickly leads the researcher to core issues of cultural identity: through a combination of lexical or semantic and conceptual studies the discourse of manliness and its role in the construction of social order is studied, in a variety of authors, genres, and communicative situations. This book is of interest to students of the classical world, the history of values, gender studies, and cultural historians.
| Author | : Phillip Harding |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2006-04-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0191518336 |
This edition of the papyrus containing Didymos' comments on some of Demosthenes' speeches aims to provide the student with a new reading of the text, a facing translation that is carefully edited for those who cannot use the Greek to show what is extant and what is restored, and a detailed commentary that considers all issues related to the restoration of the text and to its historical content. All Greek is translated into English so that the discussion is fully accessible. In addition, throughout the introduction and commentary an attempt is made to arrive at a balanced appraisal of Didymos' position in the history of scholarship.
