The Oxford Handbook of Demosthenes
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 November 2018
- ISBN 9780198713852
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages528 pages
- Size 253x180x35 mm
- Weight 1074 g
- Language English 60
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Short description:
As a speechwriter, orator, and politician, Demosthenes captured, embodied, and shaped his time. This Handbook explores the many facets of his life, work, and time, giving particular weight to his social and historical context and thereby illustrating the interplay and mutual influence between his rhetoric and the environment from which it emerged.
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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.
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.
Table of Contents:
Frontmatter
Abbreviations and Conventions
List of Contributors
Tables
Introduction
Part I. General Matters
Demosthenic Scholarship
Literary Readings of Oratory
Historical Readings of Oratory
The Place of Oratory in Fourth-Century Politics and Culture
Part II. The Institutional Context of Oratory
Public Opinion and the Arenas of Debate
Law and Justice
Court Procedures and Arbitration
Political Elites
Diplomacy
Part III. The Political Context
Athenian Foreign Policy
Athenian State Finances
Military
Corruption
Views on the Past
Visions of Attica
Part IV. The Social and Cultural Context
Trade and Credit
The Social and Legal Position of Metics, Foreigners, and Slaves
The Rhetoric of Social and Political Values
Local Communities, Neighbourhoods
Kinship
Religion
City and Countryside
Part V. Demosthenes' Life
The Biographic Tradition
Family, Formation, Extra-Political Activities
Political Career
Allies and Foes (I): Aeschines, Hyperides, Lycurgus
Allies and Foes (II): Politicians without Transmitted Speeches
Part VI. The Corpus Demosthenicum
Speeches to the Assembly and in Public Prosecutions (Dem. 1 24)
Speeches in Private Prosecutions
The Epitaphios, Erotikos, Prooimia, and Letters
Rhetorical Technique
Authenticity, Composition, Publication
Afterlife (Antiquity and Byzantine Era)
Afterlife (Modern Era)
Transmission of the Corpus Demosthenicum
Endmatter
Index
