Keeping to the Point in Athenian Forensic Oratory
Law, Character and Rhetoric
Series: New Approaches to Ancient Greek Institutional History;
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 31 January 2025
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781399523875
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English 777
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Short description:
The first volume to connect legal institutions and court arguments in a series of close readings of selected speeches from the Attic Orators
MoreLong description:
When a litigant initiated a lawsuit in Classical Athens, he submitted a written plaint to the relevant magistrate. This document contained his name, the name of the defendant, the legal procedure employed, and the specific violations of part of the law. If the magistrate accepted the plaint, the legal charges were read to the court before and after the litigants spoke, and the judges swore in their oath to vote only about the charges in the plaint, that is, whether the defendant had violated a specific law or not. In private suits, litigants took an oath to ?keep to the point?, that is, discuss only the legal charges. In public cases litigants were under the same obligation. This volume examines several Athenian court speeches and show that litigants paid close attention to legal relevance in court. Consequently, the essays in this volume make the case for integrated approach to rhetoric and law emphasizing an institutional understanding of Athenian forensic oratory.
MoreTable of Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Introduction
Alberto Esu and Edward M. Harris
Part I. Keeping to the Point in Major Public Procedures
1. The Rhetoric of the Graph? Paranom?n in the Trial on the Crown
Guy Westwood
2. Law, Office and Honour: Legal Relevance and Forensic Arguments in Demosthenes’ Against Androtion
Alberto Esu
3. Gossip, Morals and Poetry: Legal Relevance in Aeschines’ Against Timarchus
Matteo Barbato
4. How Does Lycurgus Keep to His Point? Legal and Rhetorical Relevance in Against Leocrates
Jakub Filonik
5. Institutions, Character and Relevance: Keeping to the Point in Dokimasiai
Peter A. O’Connell
Part II. Keeping to the Point on Hybris, Violence and Disenfranchisement
6. The Legal Charge in Demosthenes’ Against Meidias
Edward M. Harris
7. Did Ariston Keep to the Point? Dik? Aikeias and Graph? Hybre?s in Demosthenes’ Against Conon
Linda Rocchi
8. Trial and Error: Impiety and Legal Relevance in Andocides’ On the Mysteries
Rebecca Van Hove
Part III. Keeping to the Point on Inheritance and Damages
9. Character Evidence in Isaeus’ Speeches from Inheritance Disputes
Brenda Griffith-Williams
10. Against Timotheus: Keeping to the Point in a Suit for Damage
Giacinto Falco
Conclusions: Some Rules of Thumb in the Study of Athenian Forensic Oratory
Mirko Canevaro
Bibliography
General Index
Index Locorum
