Forensic Narratives in Athenian Courts

ISBN-13: 9781138099647 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 268 str.

Mike Edwards; Dimos Spatharas

Opis

Forensic Narratives in Athenian Courts breaks new ground by exploring different aspects of forensic storytelling in Athenian legal speeches and the ways in which forensic narratives reflect normative concerns and legal issues.

Recenzje

"[This] volume provides a great starting point for Athenian forensic narrative studies ...The book contributes substantially to Athenian forensic narrative studies and offers a wide range of exciting approaches that should inspire more scholars to explore this topic."
- Sidney Kochman, Indiana University, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2020

O autorze

Mike Edwards is Honorary Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, after being Professor of Classics in the Universities of London, Wales and Roehampton, all in the UK. He was Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, UK, and President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric. He has published extensively on the Attic orators and is currently preparing an Oxford Classical Text of Isaeus.

Dimos Spatharas is an Associate Professor at the University of Crete, Greece. He is the author of a forthcoming book, Emotions, Persuasion, and Public Discourse in Classical Athens, and of several articles on the Sophists, Greek oratory and Athenian law, and ancient emotions. He recently co-edited a volume entitled The Ancient Emotion of Disgust (2016). He also co-edits the book series Trends in Classics-Ancient Emotions.