The Orators and Their Treatment of the Recent Past

Published by De Gruyter 2023

The Orators and Their Treatment of the Recent Past

Edited by: Aggelos Kapellos

Volume 133 in the series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110791877

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This volume focuses on the representation of the recent past in classical Athenian oratory and investigates the ability of the orators to interpret it according to their interests; the inability of the Athenians to make an objective assessment of it; and the unwillingness of the citizens to hear the truth, make self-criticism and take responsibility for bad results. Twenty-eight scholars have written chapters to this end, dealing with a wide range of themes, in terms both of contents and of chronology, from the fifth to the fourth century B.C. Each contributor has written a chapter that analyzes one or more historical events mentioned or alluded in the corpus of the Attic orators and covers the three species of Attic oratory. Chapters that treat other issues collectively are also included. The common feature of each contribution is an outline of the recent events that took place and influenced the citizens and/or the city of Athens and its juxtaposition with their rhetorical treatment by the orators either by comparing the rhetorical texts with the historical sources and/or by examining the rhetorical means through which the speakers model the recent past. This book aims at advanced students and professional scholars. This volume focuses on the representation of the recent past in classical Athenian oratory and investigates: the ability of the orators to interpret it according to their interests; the inability of the Athenians to make an objective assessment of persons and events of the recent past and their unwillingness to hear the truth, make self-criticism and take responsibility for bad results.

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Angelos Kapellos, Corinth, Greece.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Fig. 1: Peter Rhodes Publicly Available Download PDF	X
The Orators and their Treatment of the Recent Past: Introduction Aggelos Kapellos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Methodical Remarks on the ‘Truthfulness’ of Oratorical Narrative Thomas G.M. Blank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Antiphon and the Recent Past Michael Gagarin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
[Lysias], 20 for Polystratus: Polystratus and the Coup of 411 B.C. Peter Rhodes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Andocides, the Spartans, and the Thirty Frances Pownall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Recent Events in Assembly Speeches and [Andocides] On the Peace Edward M. Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Lysias’ Against the Subversion of the Ancestral Constitution of Athens: A Past not to be Forgotten Cinzia Bearzot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
The Athenian Civil War according to Lysias’ Funeral Oration Dino Piovan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Lysias’ Speech 14 and the Use of the Recent Past for Political Purposes Markus Zimmermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Plato’s Menexenus on the Sea Battle-trial of Arginousai and the Battle of Aegospotami Aggelos Kapellos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Isocrates and the Peloponnesian War David Whitehead Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Back to the Future: Temporal Adjustments in Isocrates Yun Lee Too Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
The Recent Past in Isaeus’ Forensic Speeches Stefano Ferrucci Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
The Forensic Time Machine: Play on Times in Apollodorus’ Against Timotheus Nicolas Siron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Family Portraits in Demosthenes’ Inheritance Speeches: Between Rhetoric & History Brad L. Cook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Reusing Invective: Demosthenes on Androtion’s Past Gunther Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
A Tale of Two Sea-battles: Demosthenes’ Praise of Chabrias in the Speech Against Leptines Jeremy Trevett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
The Rhetoric of Deflection: Demosthenes’s Funeral Oration as Propaganda Nathan Crick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Demosthenes, between Fake News and Alternative Facts Patrice Brun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Facts, Time, and Imagination in Demosthenes and Aeschines Peter A. O’Connell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
Peace and War with Philip: Aeschines’ Against Ctesiphon on the Recent Past Dániel Bajnok Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
Lycurgus and the Past Joseph Roisman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
Remembering Chaeronea in Hyperides Craig Cooper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
Hyperides, Diondas, and the First Ascendancy of Demades Janek Kucharski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	397
Hegesippus and his Treatment of the Recent Past Zhichao Wang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
Dinarchus, the ‘Recent’ and the ‘Very Recent’ Past: Lessons from Aeschines, Demosthenes and Lycurgus? Ian Worthington Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	431
Remembering Injustice as the Perpetrator? Athenian Orators, Cultural Memory, and the Athenian Conquest of Samos Joshua P. Nudell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	447
State Inscriptions from the Recent Past in the Attic Orators James Sickinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	465
The Rhetoric to Alexander and its Political and Historical Context: The Mystery of a (Quasi-) Occultation Pierre Chiron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	481
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	493
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	499
Index of Passages Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	507

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Classicists, ancient historians, rhetoricians, political scientists, legal historians, philosophers
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 531
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 1
Keywords: Greek literature; Greek prose; Classical Athenian oratory

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Published: December 5, 2022
ISBN: 9783110791877

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Published: December 5, 2022
ISBN: 9783110791815

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Published: June 17, 2024
ISBN: 9783111536682