Offering an incisive analysis of all surviving public speeches of contemporaries and bitter rivals Demosthenes and Aeschines, this volume examines how democratic politicians in classical Athens created versions of the city's past to persuade mass decision-making audiences, cement their own authority, and compete for public endorsement.
Offering an incisive analysis of all surviving public speeches of contemporaries and bitter rivals Demosthenes and Aeschines, this volume examines how democratic politicians in classical Athens created versions of the city's past to persuade mass decision-making audiences, cement their own authority, and compete for public endorsement.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
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Frontmatter List of Editions, Translations, and Abbreviations 0: Introduction: Polyeuctus Imagines a Statue 1: The Orators and the Athenian Past 1.1. The Past in the Physical City 1.2. Fictions 1.3. Why the Past? 1.4. Using the Past 1.5. Approaches 1.6. An Outline of the Historical Context 1.7. Texts 1.7.1. Revision and Dissemination 1.7.2. Authenticity and Authorship 2: Demosthenes' Early Career: Against Leptines and Other Speeches 2.1. Introduction and Overview 2.2. Democracy in Danger? 2.3. Symbolic History 2.4. Conclusion 3: Demosthenes' Assembly Speeches 3.1. Introduction and Overview 3.2. Applying the Past 3.2.1. The Past, Rightly Applied 3.2.2. Applying the Right Past 3.3. Three Key Techniques 3.3.1. The Continuum in Peril? 3.3.2. Athens by Others 3.3.3. The Uniqueness of Athens 3.4. Modelling Demosthenes 3.5. Conclusion 4: Against Meidias and Against Timarchus 4.1. Introduction and Overview 4.2. Demosthenes: Against Meidias 4.2.1. Demosthenes' Approach 4.2.2. Meidias and Alcibiades 4.2.3. Summary 4.3. Aeschines: Against Timarchus 4.3.1. Aeschines' Parallel Athens 4.3.2. Casting, Ethos, and Anticipation 4.4. Conclusion 5: The Embassy Trial 5.1. Introduction, Overview, and Text 5.2. Demosthenes and the Prosecution 5.2.1. Aeschines and Solon 5.2.2. Aeschines as Envoy: the Timagoras Parallel 5.3. Aeschines and the Defence 5.3.1. Confronting Demosthenes 5.3.2. Aeschines at Pella (2.25-33 and 113-18) 5.3.3. Aeschines' Fifth Century (2.172-7) 5.4. Conclusion 6: The Crown Trial 6.1. Introduction, Overview, and Text 6.2. Darkest Hours, Finest Hours: Aeschines, Solon, Demosthenes 6.3. Aeschines Transfigured: the Epilogos of Against Ctesiphon and the Climax of On the Crown 6.4. Aeschines' Monuments and Demosthenes' Epilogos 6.5. Conclusion 7: Conclusion: Athens Transfigured Bibliography Index Locorum General Index
Frontmatter List of Editions, Translations, and Abbreviations 0: Introduction: Polyeuctus Imagines a Statue 1: The Orators and the Athenian Past 1.1. The Past in the Physical City 1.2. Fictions 1.3. Why the Past? 1.4. Using the Past 1.5. Approaches 1.6. An Outline of the Historical Context 1.7. Texts 1.7.1. Revision and Dissemination 1.7.2. Authenticity and Authorship 2: Demosthenes' Early Career: Against Leptines and Other Speeches 2.1. Introduction and Overview 2.2. Democracy in Danger? 2.3. Symbolic History 2.4. Conclusion 3: Demosthenes' Assembly Speeches 3.1. Introduction and Overview 3.2. Applying the Past 3.2.1. The Past, Rightly Applied 3.2.2. Applying the Right Past 3.3. Three Key Techniques 3.3.1. The Continuum in Peril? 3.3.2. Athens by Others 3.3.3. The Uniqueness of Athens 3.4. Modelling Demosthenes 3.5. Conclusion 4: Against Meidias and Against Timarchus 4.1. Introduction and Overview 4.2. Demosthenes: Against Meidias 4.2.1. Demosthenes' Approach 4.2.2. Meidias and Alcibiades 4.2.3. Summary 4.3. Aeschines: Against Timarchus 4.3.1. Aeschines' Parallel Athens 4.3.2. Casting, Ethos, and Anticipation 4.4. Conclusion 5: The Embassy Trial 5.1. Introduction, Overview, and Text 5.2. Demosthenes and the Prosecution 5.2.1. Aeschines and Solon 5.2.2. Aeschines as Envoy: the Timagoras Parallel 5.3. Aeschines and the Defence 5.3.1. Confronting Demosthenes 5.3.2. Aeschines at Pella (2.25-33 and 113-18) 5.3.3. Aeschines' Fifth Century (2.172-7) 5.4. Conclusion 6: The Crown Trial 6.1. Introduction, Overview, and Text 6.2. Darkest Hours, Finest Hours: Aeschines, Solon, Demosthenes 6.3. Aeschines Transfigured: the Epilogos of Against Ctesiphon and the Climax of On the Crown 6.4. Aeschines' Monuments and Demosthenes' Epilogos 6.5. Conclusion 7: Conclusion: Athens Transfigured Bibliography Index Locorum General Index
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