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Antiphon: The Speeches

By Michael Gagarin

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1997
ISBN
0521389313, 9780521389310
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6464982 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Pages
266\274
Time added
2020-03-08 09:48:34

Description

This volume provides a commentary on the six surviving speeches of the fifth-century BC Athenian orator Antiphon, all of which concern homicide, together with a fragment of Antiphon's final speech at his own trial for treason in 411 BC. The commentary discusses grammatical, stylistic, textual, legal, rhetorical, historical and other matters and focuses especially on Antiphon's argumentation and forensic strategy: why he presents these arguments in this particular way. The work includes a new Greek text which restores some of the special qualities of Antiphon's style that twentieth-century editors have edited out and a substantial introduction to the life and work of Antiphon, the nature of Athenian law and legal oratory and the style and textual tradition of Antiphon.

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