Overview

As a speechwriter, orator, and politician, Demosthenes captured, embodied, and shaped his time. He was a key player in Athens in the twilight of the city's independence, and is today a primary source for its history and society during that period. The Oxford Handbook of Demosthenes sets out to explore the many facets of his life, work, and time, giving particular weight to elucidating the settings and contexts of his activities, as well as some of the key themes dealt with in his speeches, and thereby illustrating the interplay and mutual influence between his rhetoric and the environment from which it emerged. The volume's thirty-five chapters are authored by experts in the field and offer both comprehensive coverage and an up-to-date reference point for the issues and problems encountered when approaching the speeches in particular: they not only showcase how Demosthenes' rhetoric was profoundly influenced by Athenian reality, but also explore its reception from Demosthenes' own day right up until the present and how his presentation of his world has subsequently shaped our view of it. The wide range of expertise and the different scholarly traditions represented are a vivid demonstration of the richness and diversity of current Demosthenic studies and the contribution the volume makes to enriching our knowledge of the life and work of one of the most prominent figures of ancient Greece will be of significance to a wide readership interested in Athenian history, society, rhetoric, politics, and law.

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Author:   Gunther Martin (SNSF-Professor, SNSF-Professor, University of Zurich)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.00cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9780198713852

ISBN 10:   0198713851
Pages:   528
Publication Date:   22 November 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Frontmatter Abbreviations and Conventions List of Contributors Tables 0: Gunther Martin: Introduction Part I. General Matters 1: Thomas Paulsen: Demosthenic Scholarship 2: Gottfried Mader: Literary Readings of Oratory 3: Adele C. Scafuro: Historical Readings of Oratory 4: Katharina Wojciech: The Place of Oratory in Fourth-Century Politics and Culture Part II. The Institutional Context of Oratory 5: Karen Piepenbrink: Public Opinion and the Arenas of Debate 6: Mirko Canevaro: Law and Justice 7: Michael Gagarin: Court Procedures and Arbitration 8: Susan Lape: Political Elites 9: Peter Hunt: Diplomacy Part III. The Political Context 10: P. J. Rhodes: Athenian Foreign Policy 11: Edmund M. Burke: Athenian State Finances 12: Leonhard Burckhardt: Military 13: Robert J. Nichols: Corruption 14: Guy Westwood: Views on the Past 15: Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner: Visions of Attica Part IV. The Social and Cultural Context 16: Sitta von Reden: Trade and Credit 17: Kostas Kapparis: The Social and Legal Position of Metics, Foreigners, and Slaves 18: Joseph Roisman: The Rhetoric of Social and Political Values 19: Winfried Schmitz: Local Communities, Neighbourhoods 20: S. C. Humphreys: Kinship 21: Hannah Willey: Religion 22: Robin Osborne: City and Countryside Part V. Demosthenes' Life 23: Brad L. Cook: The Biographic Tradition 24: Iris Samotta: Family, Formation, Extra-Political Activities 25: Christos Karvounis: Political Career 26: Noriko Sawada: Allies and Foes (I): Aeschines, Hyperides, Lycurgus 27: Luigi Gallo: Allies and Foes (II): Politicians without Transmitted Speeches Part VI. The Corpus Demosthenicum 28: Edward M. Harris: Speeches to the Assembly and in Public Prosecutions (Dem. 1 24) 29: Pietro Cobetto Ghiggia: Speeches in Private Prosecutions 30: Ian Worthington: The Epitaphios, Erotikos, Prooimia, and Letters 31: Cecil W. Wooten: Rhetorical Technique 32: Jeremy Trevett: Authenticity, Composition, Publication 33: Luciano Canfora: Afterlife (Antiquity and Byzantine Era) 34: Alastair Blanshard: Afterlife (Modern Era) 35: Gunther Martin: Transmission of the Corpus Demosthenicum Endmatter Index

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The first thing to be said about a publication like this is that a comprehensive book on Demosthenes, an indispensable figure in the history of Greek literature and history, should always be well received. * Felipe G. Hern'andez Mu~noz, GNOMON 95 *

The first thing to be said about a publication like this is that a comprehensive book on Demosthenes, an indispensable figure in the history of Greek literature and history, should always be well received. * Felipe G. Hern´andez Muñoz, GNOMON 95 *

Author Information

Gunther Martin is SNSF-Professor at the University of Zurich; educated at the universities of Munich and Oxford, he has previously held posts at Oxford, Nottingham, and Berne. He is the author of books on Demosthenes, Euripides, and the historian Dexippus, and his work focuses on textual scholarship, the study of communication, and the relationship between historical reality and its representation in literary texts.

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