The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens

ISBN-13: 9780198857037 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 432 str.

Guy Westwood

Recenzje

Westwood's monograph (based on a 2013 D.Phil Thesis) is a welcome and important addition to the increasingly rich bibliography on the theme of the use of history and exemplarity in the Attic Orators... The specialist tone of the book means that, perhaps, it will represent a precious tool for the experienced scholar rather than for the student approaching the subject for the first time... the reader is left with a far more comprehensive portrait of how fourth-century Athenians looked at their past more generally. Westwood's monograph will represent a fundamental tool for anyone approaching the theory and practice of paradeigmata in Athenian political oratory.

O autorze

Guy Westwood is a Departmental Lecturer in Greek Literature at the University of Oxford, and Lecturer in Classics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. He was previously a Departmental Lecturer in Classical Literature at St Hugh's College, Oxford; prior to that he held a Teaching Fellowship in Greek History and Language at the University of Birmingham and the Leventis Research Fellowship in Ancient Greek at Merton College, Oxford.