Law, Rhetoric and Comedy in Classical Athens: Essays in Honour of Douglas M MacDowell

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In 2001 a conference on Athenian Law and Life was held at Glasgow University to mark the retirment of Professor Douglas M MacDowell. These seventeen papers, from that conference, reflect MacDowell's interests in the development of Athenian law, Attic oratory and Greek comedy. Placing Athenian law and rhetoric in their social and historical context throughout, contributors examine: oral law in archaic Greece, Athenian contracts and law of procedure in Attic inscriptions; political rhetoric, Antiphon and the Mysteries; Aristophanes and the Athenian assembly, ritual patterns in Aristophanes and new papyri of Menander. Cover Title page Contents Acknowledgements Introduction D.M. MacDowell: List of Publications PART I: LAW 1. Aspects of oral law in archaic Greece 2. Writing Athenian law 3. Law of procedure in Attic inscriptions 4. Contracts in Athens PART II: RHETORIC AND POLITICS 5. Textual arguments for the date of the In Alcibiadem in the Corpus of Andokides 6. Antiphon the revolutionary 7. Revisiting the herms and the mysteries 8. Andocides' defence and MacDowell's solution 9. Lysias for pleasure? 10. Antiphon's daughter 11. Isokrates for hire: Some preliminaries to a commentary on Isokrates 16-21 12. Stirring up dicastic anger PART III: COMEDY 13. Comedy and the unspeakable 14. Aristophanes and the Athenian assembly 15. The limits of allegory and allusion in Aristophanes 16. From sacrifice to feast: a ritual pattern in Aristophanic comedy 17. Menander's Epitrepontes in the light of the new papyri Index