Oxford Readings in The Attic Orators.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Einband leicht berieben, sonst sehr guter Zustand / binding slightly rubbed, otherwise very good condition. - No other corpus tells us as much about the daily lives and deepest convictions of the ancient Athenians as the surviving speeches of the �Attic Orators�. These were the canonical ten speechwriters, from Antiphon to Demosthenes and his rivals (with at least one interloper, Apollodorus). Their work spans roughly a century, from the Peloponnesian War to the death of Alexander. These writers have left us over a hundred speeches for lawsuits, a body of work that reveals an evolving connection between 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, all Greek has been translated, and a glossary explains the special terms of law and rhetoric. / Contents Abbreviations and Conventions Introduction I. THE LOST ART AND THE FIRST WRITTEN SPEECHES 1. The Written Plea of the Logographer Marius Lavency 2. Lysias and his Clients Stephen Usher 3. Who Was Corax? Thomas Cole 4. Adultery by the Book: Lysias 1 (On the Murder of Eratosthenes) and Comic Diegesis John R. Porter II. THE TOOLS OF ARGUMENT: PROCEDURE AND PROOF 5. Demosthenes as Advocate: The Functions and Methods of Legal Consultants in Classical Athens Hans Julius Wolff (with an epilogue by Gerhard Thur) 6. Law and Equity in the Attic Trial Harald Meyer-Laurin 7. Social Relations on Stage: Witnesses in Classical Athens S. C. Humphreys 8. The Nature of Proofs in Antiphon Michael Gagarin 9. �Artless Proofs� in Aristotle and the Orators Christopher Carey 10. Torture and Rhetoric in Athens David Mirhady III. CASTING THE JURY 11. Ability and Education: The Power of Persuasion Josiah Ober 12. Lady Chatterley�s Lover and the Attic Orators: The Social Composition of the Athenian Jury Stephen Todd 13. Arguments from Precedent in Attic Oratory Lene Rubinstein 14. Politics as Literature: Demosthenes and the Burden of the Athenian Past Harvey Yunis A Glossary of Greek and Latin Terms References Acknowledgements Index of Passages Discussed. ISBN 9780199279937