Overview

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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Author:   Edwin Carawan (Professor of Classics, Missouri State University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.30cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.700kg
ISBN:  

9780199279920

ISBN 10:   0199279926
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   22 March 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Edwin Carawan: Introduction: The Speechwriter's Art and the Imagined Community I. The Lost Art and the First Written Speeches 1: Marius Lavency: The Written Plea of the Logographer 2: Stephen Usher: Lysias and his Clients 3: Thomas Cole: Who Was Corax? 4: John R. Porter: Adultery by the Book: Lysias 1 (On the Murder of Eratosthenes) and Comic Diegesis II. The Tools of Argument: Procedure and Proof 5: Hans Julius Wolff, with an epilogue by Gerhard Thur: Demosthenes as Advocate: The Functions and Methods of Legal Consultants in Classical Athens 6: Harald Meyer-Laurin: Law and Equity in the Attic Trial 7: S. C. Humphreys: Social Relations on Stage: Witnesses in Classical Athens 8: Michael Gagarin: The Nature of Proofs in Antiphon 9: Christopher Carey: `Artless Proofs' in Aristotle and the Orators 10: David Mirhady: Torture and Rhetoric in Athens III. Casting the Jury 11: Josiah Ober: Ability and Education: The Power of Persuasion 12: Stephen Todd: `Lady Chatterley's Lover' and the Attic Orators: The Social Composition of the Athenian Jury 13: Lene Rubinstein: Arguments from Precedent in the Attic Orators 14: Harvey Yunis: Politics as Literature: Demosthenes and the Burden of the Athenian Past

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Edwin Carawan is Professor of Classics, Missouri State University.

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