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Zusatztext this volume provides a well-chosen and thematically coherent... cross-section of scholarly work on the judicial speeches of the Attic orators Informationen zum Autor Edwin Carawan is Professor of Classics, Missouri State University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
