The rhetoric of the past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: oratory, history, and politics in classical Athens

This work examines how politicians in late classical Athens made persuasive use of the city's past when addressing mass citizen audiences, especially in the law courts and Assembly. It focuses on Demosthenes and Aeschines-both prominent statesmen, and bitter rivals-as its case-study orators. Re...

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1. Verfasser: Westwood, Guy 1986- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford University Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:Oxford classical monographs
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Zusammenfassung:This work examines how politicians in late classical Athens made persuasive use of the city's past when addressing mass citizen audiences, especially in the law courts and Assembly. It focuses on Demosthenes and Aeschines-both prominent statesmen, and bitter rivals-as its case-study orators. Recent scholarly treatments of how the Athenians remembered their past tend to concentrate on collective processes; to complement these, this work looks at the rhetorical strategies devised by individual orators, examining what it meant for Demosthenes or Aeschines to present particular 'historical' examples (or paradigms/paradeigmata), arguments, and illustrations in particular contexts
Beschreibung:Also issued in print: 2020. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (432 Seiten)
ISBN:9780191890130
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198857037.001.0001

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