Oxford readings in the Attic orators / edited by Edwin Carawan.

Other author Carawan, Edwin.
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Descriptionxxiv, 450 pages ; 23 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
Subjects

SeriesOxford readings in classical studies
Oxford readings in classical studies. ^A584123
Contents The written plea of the logographer / Marius Lavency -- Lysias and his clients / Stephen Usher -- Who was Corax? / Thomas Cole -- Adultery by the book : Lysias 1 (On the murder of Eratosthenes) and comic diēgēsis / John R. Porter -- Demosthenes as advocate : the functions and methods of legal consultants in classical Athens / Hans Julius Wolff ; with an epilogue by Gerhard Thür -- Law and equity in the Attic trial / Harald Meyer-Laurin -- Social relations on stage : witnesses in classical Athens / S.C. Humphreys -- The nature of proofs in antiphon / Michael Gagarin -- 'Artless proofs' in Aristotle and the orators / Christopher Carey -- Torture and rhetoric in Athens / David Mirhady -- Ability and education : the power of persuasion / Josiah Ober -- Lady Chatterley's lover and the Attic orators : the social composition of the Athenian jury / Stephen Todd -- Arguments from precedent in the Attic oratory / Lene Rubinstein -- Politics as literature : Demosthenes and the burden of the Athenian past / Harvey Yunis.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [400]-430) and index.
LCCN 2006039353
ISBN9780199279937 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0199279934 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780199279920 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0199279926 (hbk. : alk. paper)

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