Download or read book Greek Orators VIII written by BRENDA. GRIFFITH-WILLIAMS and published by . This book was released on 2024-11-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four courtroom speeches from disputed inheritance claims tell stories of family conflict in ancient Athens. The commentary focuses on legal issues and rhetorical strategies, but no famliarity with Athenian law is assumed. The book will be equally useful to specialists and readers with little or no knowledge of classical Greek.
Download or read book Greek Orators VIII written by Brenda Griffith-Williams and published by . This book was released on 2022-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four selected speeches were composed by a professional speechwriter, Isaeus, for litigants contesting inheritance claims in the Athenian courts of the fourth century BC. They offer some intriguing glimpses into the domestic life of (mainly wealthy) Athenian families, with sometimes scandalous stories of forged wills, family quarrels, illegitimate children, divorce, and prostitution. The narratives feature positive and negative Athenian stereotypes of women (dutiful wife or deceitful seductress).In the first comprehensive English language commentaries on these speeches for over 100 years. the main focus is on legal issues as the key to understanding Isaeus's rhetorical strategy. The aim is to show that he did not, as modern scholars have sometimes argued, ignore the law and seek to win cases for his clients on purely moral grounds. Rather, through carefully constructed narratives and persuasive but sometimes convoluted argumentation, he sought to convince the judges that the law was on his clients' side.The combination of translations and commentaries makes the selected speeches accessible to readers with little or no knowledge of classical Greek. No familiarity with Athenian law is assumed, but the book will also be useful to specialists seeking to explore Isaeus's work in greater depth.
Download or read book Greek Orators VII written by Stephen Clarke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first detailed commentary on Demosthenes' political speech, On the Chersonese, delivered in 341 BC at a time when Athens was under political pressure from Philip of Macedon. A brilliant demonstration of Demosthenes' skill as an orator, the speech argues in favour of the Athenian general Diopeithes, in the face of the threat of retaliation by Philip against his actions.
Download or read book Athenian Political Oratory written by David Phillips and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-09-25 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The celebrated orators and speeches of ancient Athens have been read and enjoyed for thousands of years. Focusing on the works of three of the greatest orators in history-Demosthenes, Lysias, and Hypereides-this collection of speeches is an indispensable source for anyone interested in classical civilization and literature, political science and rhetoric. Each of the three sections-The Thirty Tyrants, Philip and Athens, and Athens Under Alexander-includes an introduction providing an historical overview of the period and each speech is preceded by its own brief introduction. Rendered in lively, readable prose, the translations capture the energy, vigor and power of the originals.
Download or read book The Greek Orators written by John Frederic Dobson and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Library of Universal Literature Greek orators v 2 Roman orators v 3 Orators of continental Europe v 4 5 Orators of Great Britain and Ireland v 6 8 American orators written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Greek Orators Considered as Historical Authorites The Arnold Prize Essay for 1866 written by Francis Allston Channing baron Channing and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Demosthenes written by Ian Worthington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demosthenes is often adjudged the statesman par excellence, and his oratory as some of the finest to survive from classical times. Contemporary politicians still quote him in their speeches and for some he is the supreme example of a patriot. This landmark study of this remarkable man and his long career, the first to focus on him for more than 80 years, looks at the background behind this reputation and asks whether it is truly deserved.
Download or read book Demosthenes Speeches 27 38 written by Demosthenes and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the eighth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. These translations are especially designed for the needs and interests of today's undergraduates, Greekless scholars in other disciplines, and the general public. Classical oratory is an invaluable resource for the study of ancient Greek life and culture. The speeches offer evidence on Greek moral views, social and economic conditions, political and social ideology, law and legal procedure, and other aspects of Athenian culture that have recently been attracting particular interest: women and family life, slavery, and religion, to name just a few. Demosthenes is regarded as the greatest orator of classical antiquity. This volume contains five speeches written for lawsuits in which Demosthenes sought to recover his inheritance, which he claimed was fraudulently misappropriated and squandered by the trustees of the estate. These speeches shed light on Athenian systems of inheritance, marriage, and dowry. The volume also contains seven speeches illustrating the legal procedure known as paragraphe, or "counter-indictment." Four of these are for lawsuits involving commercial shipping, a vital aspect of the Athenian economy that was crucial to maintaining the city's imported food supply. Another concerns the famous Athenian silver mines.
Download or read book Athenian Political Oratory written by and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Greek Orators VI Apollodorus Against Nearia written by C. Carey and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1992-02 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rational persuasion and appeal to an audience's emotions are elements of most literature, but they are found in their purest form in oratory. The speeches written by the Greek Orators for delivery in law-courts, deliberative councils and assemblies enjoyed an honoured literary status, and rightly so, for the best of them have great vitality. There is no crude, primitive stage of development: the earliest speeches are perfect in form and highly sophisticated in technique. They inform the reader about aspects of Greek society and about their moral values, in a direct and illuminating way not paralleled in other literature.
Download or read book Speeches from Athenian Law written by Michael Gagarin and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the sixteenth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. These translations are especially designed for the needs and interests of today's undergraduates, Greekless scholars in other disciplines, and the general public. Classical oratory is an invaluable resource for the study of ancient Greek life and culture. The speeches offer evidence on Greek moral views, social and economic conditions, political and social ideology, law and legal procedure, and other aspects of Athenian culture that have recently been attracting particular interest: women and family life, slavery, and religion, to name just a few. This volume assembles twenty-two speeches previously published in the Oratory series. The speeches are taken from a wide range of different kinds of cases—homicide, assault, commercial law, civic status, sexual offenses, and others—and include many of the best-known speeches in these areas. They are Antiphon, Speeches 1, 2, 5, and 6; Lysias 1, 3, 23, 24, and 32; Isocrates 17, 20; Isaeus 1, 7, 8; Hyperides 3; Demosthenes 27, 35, 54, 55, 57, and 59; and Aeschines 1. The volume is intended primarily for use in teaching courses in Greek law or related areas such as Greek history. It also provides the introductions and notes that originally accompanied the individual speeches, revised slightly to shift the focus onto law.
Download or read book The Greek Orators written by John Frederic Dobson and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
