The Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory

ISBN-13: 9780367228200 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 230 str.

Jakub Filonik; Brenda Griffith-Williams; Janek Kucharski

Opis

A fascinating look at extant speeches from the Athenian Assembly, lawcourts, and Council in the 5th-4th centuries BC.  Of interest to anyone working on the speeches themselves, identity in ancient Greece, or ancient oratory and rhetoric more broadly.

Spis treści

Introduction Jakub Filonik, Brenda Griffith-Williams, and Janek Kucharski  Part 1: The politics of naming and individuals’ rhetorical identities  1. Civic and local identities in Athenian rhetoric Roger Brock  2. The two Mantitheuses in Demosthenes 39 and [Demosthenes] 40: a case of Athenian identity theft? Brenda Griffith-Williams  3. Constructing the identity of Timarchus in Aeschines 1 Rosalia Hatzilambrou  4. Constructing gender identity: women in Athenian trials Konstantinos Kapparis  Part 2: The rhetorical construction of civic identities  5. Athenian identity and the ideology of autochthony: an institutionalist approach Matteo Barbato  6. Lysias and the rhetoric of citizen honour Benjamin Keim  7. Archaism, performance, and civic status in Lysias 10 Against Theomnestus Alex Petkas  8. Seeing others as Athenians in Demosthenes’ third Philippic Judson Herrman  Part 3: Social and material dimensions of Athenian identities  9. The rich and the poor, conflicts and alliances: socio-economic identities and their uses in the Demosthenic corpus Lucia Cecchet  10. Prosecutorial identities and the problem of relevance Janek Kucharski  11. Space, place, and identity in Antiphon On the Murder of Herodes Christine Plastow.  Index  Index locorum