Gender, Status, and Space in Athenian Oratory and Society by Lehmann, Hilary J. C.; Plastow, Christine;

Short description:

Intellectual shifts in the late 20^th century led to profound change in the questions that could be asked about the ancient world; the chapters in this volume are inspired by the way these shifts have affected scholars’ attitude towards and use of Athenian oratory in the study of social history.

Long description:

Intellectual shifts in the late 20^th century led to profound change in the questions that could be asked about the ancient world; the chapters in this volume are inspired by the way these shifts have affected scholars’ attitude towards and use of Athenian oratory in the study of social history.

Readers will encounter some of the most up-to-date directions of enquiry in the social-historical study of the Athenian orators. Case studies from across the corpus of the orators explore themes in gender, status, and space as well as their intersections. The contributors to this volume, primarily early-career researchers representing a range of nationalities and academic positions, combine philological and social-historical methodologies with disciplinarily diverse contemporary theoretical frameworks, including spatial analysis, queer theory, and disability theory.

Gender, Status, and Space in Athenian Oratory and Society is intended for students and scholars of the Athenian orators and of Athenian social history and is designed to be accessible to readers without extensive knowledge of ancient Greek.

Table of Contents:

List of contributors ix Acknowledgements xii Introduction 1 HILARY J. C. LEHMANN AND CHRISTINE PLASTOW 1 Identification of citizen women in the Attic orators: a reconsideration from Demosthenes 27–29 and 44 15 NICOLAS SIRON 2 Women and place in the speeches of Isaios 36 ALLISON GLAZEBROOK 3 Do you even lift, bro? Sport and embodied masculinities in the Attic orators 56 JESSICA PENNY EVANS 4 The stammering barbarian: the body politics of villainy in the speeches of Aeschines 79 ALLISON DAS 5 Punishing the disadvantaged: status-defining penalties and their ideology in classical Athens 95 JANEK KUCHARSKI 6 The portrayal of slaves in forensic oratory and the connection with enslaved people in real life 113 ELENI VOLONAKI 7 Labour, agency, and the condition of slaves and freedpersons in 4th-century Athens 133 JAVAL COLEMAN 8 Metics across boundaries: inhabitants’ polis and spatial narratives in Athenian forensic oratory 154 MENGZHEN YUE 9 The spaces of insult in the corpus of Attic orators 183 JEAN-NOËL ALLARD 10 Reimagined space in the orators 196 GUY WESTWOOD 11 Space and reconciliation in Athens after the Thirty 216 CHRISTINE PLASTOW 12 Topographies of affection: the space of kinship in Athenian inheritance speeches 232 HILARY J. C. LEHMANN 13 Domestic space and Aphobus’ guilt in Demosthenes 27, The First Speech Against Aphobus 252 PETER A. O’CONNELL Index 273