Greek Orators VIII - Isaeus Orations: 1, 2, 4 and 6

Four courtroom speeches from disputed inheritance claims tell stories of family conflict in ancient Athens. The commentary focuses on legal issues and rhetorical strategies, but no famliarity with Athenian law is assumed. The book will be equally useful to specialists and readers with little or no knowledge of classical Greek.

About the author

Brenda Griffith-Williams is Honorary Research Associate at the Department of Greek and Latin, University College London. Her publications include A Commentary on Selected Speeches of Isaios (Brill, 2013); Use and Abuse of Law in the Athenian Courts, ed. C. Carey, I. Giannadaki and B. Griffith-Williams (Brill, 2018); The Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory ed. J. Filonik, B. Griffith-Williams and J. Kucharski (Routledge, 2020).

Product details

• Authors: Brenda Griffith-Williams
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2024
• EAN: 9781835538005
• ISBN: 978-1-83553-800-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies