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Author:   Guy Westwood (Departmental Lecturer in Greek Literature, Departmental Lecturer in Greek Literature, University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.50cm
Weight:   0.614kg
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9780198857037

ISBN 10:   0198857039
Pages:   424
Publication Date:   22 April 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

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 Endmatter: Bibliography Index Locorum General Index

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The book is well researched and extremely learned, as shown not only by the comprehensiveness of the analysis of Aeschinean and Demosthenic speeches and their broader context(s), but also by the rich bibliography and the impressive number of passages examined, both in the main body of the work and in the accurate and detailed footnotes. The prose is elegant and refined (sometimes to a fault), with very few typos. * LINDA ROCCHI, The Classical Review * This book offers a fresh and thorough reading of how Athenian history was used in fourth-century Attic oratory, revealing the creative way in which it was exploited as an element of persuasion ... scholars of all fields interested in rhetoric, history and politics will certainly benefit from the wealth of Westwood's observations and his thorough analysis. * Konstantinos Apostolakis, Journal of Indo-European Studies * Westwood's monograph (based on a 2013 D.Phil Thesis) is a welcome and important addition to the increasingly rich bibliography on the theme of the use of history and exemplarity in the Attic Orators... The specialist tone of the book means that, perhaps, it will represent a precious tool for the experienced scholar rather than for the student approaching the subject for the first time... the reader is left with a far more comprehensive portrait of how fourth-century Athenians looked at their past more generally. Westwood's monograph will represent a fundamental tool for anyone approaching the theory and practice of paradeigmata in Athenian political oratory. * Antonio Iacoviello, University of Edinburgh, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *

Westwood's monograph (based on a 2013 D.Phil Thesis) is a welcome and important addition to the increasingly rich bibliography on the theme of the use of history and exemplarity in the Attic Orators... The specialist tone of the book means that, perhaps, it will represent a precious tool for the experienced scholar rather than for the student approaching the subject for the first time... the reader is left with a far more comprehensive portrait of how fourth-century Athenians looked at their past more generally. Westwood's monograph will represent a fundamental tool for anyone approaching the theory and practice of paradeigmata in Athenian political oratory. * Antonio Iacoviello, University of Edinburgh, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *

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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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