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The Attic Orators

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
0199279926, 9780199279920
LCC
PA3264 .O94 2007
Open Library ID
OL17173639M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1956838 bytes)
Series
Oxford Readings in Classical Studies
Pages
350\475
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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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