| Description |
xxiv, 450 p. |
| Series |
Oxford readings in classical studies |
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Oxford readings in classical studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [400]-430) and index. |
| Contents |
The written plea of the logographer / Marius Lavency -- Lysias and his clients / Stephen Usher -- Who was Corax? / Thomas Cole -- Adultery by the book : Lysias 1 (On the murder of Eratosthenes) and comic diegesis / John R. Porter -- Demosthenes as advocate : the functions and methods of legal consultants in classical Athens / Hans Julius Wolff ; with an epilogue by Gerhard Thur -- Law and equity in the Attic trial / Harald Meyer-Laurin -- Social relations on stage : witnesses in classical Athens / S.C. Humphreys -- The nature of proofs in antiphon / Michael Gagarin -- 'Artless proofs' in Aristotle and the orators / Christopher Carey -- Torture and rhetoric in Athens / David Mirhady -- Ability and education : the power of persuasion / Josiah Ober -- Lady Chatterley's lover and the Attic orators : the social composition of the Athenian jury / Stephen Todd -- Arguments from precedent in the Attic oratory / Lene Rubinstein -- Politics as literature : Demosthenes and the burden of the Athenian past / Harvey Yunis. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek -- History and criticism.
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Political oratory -- Greece -- Athens.
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Rhetoric, Ancient.
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Oratory, Ancient.
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Athens (Greece) -- Intellectual life.
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Athens (Greece) -- Politics and government.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Carawan, Edwin.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780199279937 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0199279934 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780199279920 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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0199279926 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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