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The Attic Orators

The Attic Orators

Author: Edwin Carawan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199279937
Published In: March 2007
Format: Paperback , 480 pages
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Focuses on the intersection of law and rhetoric, a topic of current interest

Covers a wide range of topics and represents a broad spectrum of opinion, while exploring the connecting theme of the imagined community

The `Attic Orators' have left us a hundred speeches for lawsuits, a body of work that reveals an important connection between evolving rhetoric and the jury trial. The essays in this volume explore that formative linkage, representing the main directions of recent work on the Orators: the emergence of technical manuals and ghost-written speeches for prospective litigants; the technique for adapting documentary evidence to common-sense notions about probable motives and typical characters; and profiling the jury as the ultimate arbiter of values. An Introduction by the editor explores the speechwriter's art in terms of the imagined community. Four essays appear in English here for the first time, and all Greek has been translated.

Readership: Scholars and students of classics, ancient history, law, political thought.

Edwin Carawan: Introduction: The Speechwriter's Art and the Imagined Community
I. The Lost Art and the First Written Speeches
1: Marius Lavency: The Written Plea of the Logographer
2: Stephen Usher: Lysias and his Clients
3: Thomas Cole: Who Was Corax?
4: John R. Porter: Adultery by the Book: Lysias 1 (On the Murder of Eratosthenes) and Comic Diegesis
II. The Tools of Argument: Procedure and Proof
5: Hans Julius Wolff, with an epilogue by Gerhard Thur: Demosthenes as Advocate: The Functions and Methods of Legal Consultants in Classical Athens
6: Harald Meyer-Laurin: Law and Equity in the Attic Trial
7: S. C. Humphreys: Social Relations on Stage: Witnesses in Classical Athens
8: Michael Gagarin: The Nature of Proofs in Antiphon
9: Christopher Carey: `Artless Proofs' in Aristotle and the Orators
10: David Mirhady: Torture and Rhetoric in Athens
III. Casting the Jury
11: Josiah Ober: Ability and Education: The Power of Persuasion
12: Stephen Todd: `Lady Chatterley's Lover' and the Attic Orators: The Social Composition of the Athenian Jury
13: Lene Rubinstein: Arguments from Precedent in the Attic Orators
14: Harvey Yunis: Politics as Literature: Demosthenes and the Burden of the Athenian Past

Edited by Edwin Carawan, Professor of Classics, Missouri State University

Contributors:

Edwin Carawan

Christopher Carey

Thomas Cole

Michael Gagarin

S. C. Humphreys

Marius Lavency

Harald Meyer-Laurin

David Mirhady

Josiah Ober

John R. Porter

Lene Rubinstein

Stephen Todd

Stephen Usher

Hans Julius Wolff

Harvey Yunis

"this volume provides a well-chosen and thematically coherent... cross-section of scholarly work on the judicial speeches of the Attic orators" - Jeremy Trevett, Bryn Mawr Classical Review