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Author:   Edwin Carawan (Professor of Classics, Missouri State University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.30cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.700kg
ISBN:  

9780199279920

ISBN 10:   0199279926
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   22 March 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

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

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Edwin Carawan is Professor of Classics, Missouri State University.

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