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  1. The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines
    Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens
    Author: Westwood, Guy
    Published: 2020; ©2020
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Oxford

    Offering an incisive analysis of all surviving public speeches of contemporaries and bitter rivals Demosthenes and Aeschines, this volume examines how democratic politicians in classical Athens created versions of the city's past to persuade mass... more

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    Offering an incisive analysis of all surviving public speeches of contemporaries and bitter rivals Demosthenes and Aeschines, this volume examines how democratic politicians in classical Athens created versions of the city's past to persuade mass decision-making audiences, cement their own authority, and compete for public endorsement

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780192599124
    RVK Categories: FB 4051 ; FH 32653 ; FH 33025
    Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
    Subjects: Demosthenes-Criticism and interpretation; Politik; Rhetorik
    Other subjects: Aeschines Orator (v389-v314); Demosthenes (v384-v322); Electronic books
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (424 Seiten)
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    Cover -- The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Editions, Translations, and Abbreviations -- Editions -- Translations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Polyeuctus Imagines a Statue -- Chapter 1: The Orators and the Athenian Past -- 1.1. The Past in the Physical City -- 1.2. Fictions -- 1.3. Why the Past? -- 1.4. Using the Past -- 1.5 Approaches -- 1.6. An Outline of the Historical Context -- 1.7 Texts -- 1.7.1. Revision and Dissemination -- 1.7.2. Authenticity and Authorship -- Chapter 2: Demosthenes' Early Career: Against Leptines and Other Speeches -- 2.1 Introduction and Overview -- 2.2. Democracy in Danger? -- 2.3. Symbolic History -- 2.4. Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Demosthenes' Assembly Speeches -- 3.1. Introduction and Overview -- 3.2 Applying the Past -- 3.2.1. The Past, Rightly Applied -- 3.2.2. Applying the Right Past -- 3.3 Three Key Techniques -- 3.3.1. The Continuum in Peril? -- 3.3.2. Athens by Others -- 3.3.3. The Uniqueness of Athens -- 3.4. Modelling Demosthenes -- 3.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Against Meidias and Against Timarchus -- 4.1. Introduction and Overview -- 4.2. Demosthenes: Against Meidias -- 4.2.1. Demosthenes' Approach -- 4.2.2. Meidias and Alcibiades -- 4.2.3. Summary -- 4.3. Aeschines: Against Timarchus -- 4.3.1. Aeschines' Parallel Athens -- 4.3.2. Casting, Ēthos, and Anticipation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: The Embassy Trial -- 5.1. Introduction, Overview, and Text -- 5.2. Demosthenes and the Prosecution -- 5.2.1. Aeschines and Solon -- 5.2.2. Aeschines as Envoy: The Timagoras Parallel -- 5.3. Aeschines and Defence -- 5.3.1. Confronting Demosthenes -- 5.3.2. Aeschines at Pella (2.25-33 and 113-18) -- 5.3.3. Aeschines' Fifth Century (2.172-7) -- 5.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 6: The Crown Trial

    6.1. Introduction, Overview, and Text -- 6.2. Darkest Hours, Finest Hours: Aeschines, Solon, Demosthenes -- 6.3. Aeschines Transfigured: The Epilogos of Against Ctesiphon and the Climax of on the Crown -- 6.4. Aeschines' Monuments and Demosthenes' Epilogos -- 6.5 Conclusion -- Conclusion: Athens Transfigured -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index
  2. The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines
    Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens
    Author: Westwood, Guy
    Published: 2020; ©2020
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press USA - OSO, Oxford

    Offering an incisive analysis of all surviving public speeches of contemporaries and bitter rivals Demosthenes and Aeschines, this volume examines how democratic politicians in classical Athens created versions of the city's past to persuade mass... more

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    Offering an incisive analysis of all surviving public speeches of contemporaries and bitter rivals Demosthenes and Aeschines, this volume examines how democratic politicians in classical Athens created versions of the city's past to persuade mass decision-making audiences, cement their own authority, and compete for public endorsement. Cover -- The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Editions, Translations, and Abbreviations -- Editions -- Translations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Polyeuctus Imagines a Statue -- Chapter 1: The Orators and the Athenian Past -- 1.1. The Past in the Physical City -- 1.2. Fictions -- 1.3. Why the Past? -- 1.4. Using the Past -- 1.5 Approaches -- 1.6. An Outline of the Historical Context -- 1.7 Texts -- 1.7.1. Revision and Dissemination -- 1.7.2. Authenticity and Authorship -- Chapter 2: Demosthenes' Early Career: Against Leptines and Other Speeches -- 2.1 Introduction and Overview -- 2.2. Democracy in Danger? -- 2.3. Symbolic History -- 2.4. Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Demosthenes' Assembly Speeches -- 3.1. Introduction and Overview -- 3.2 Applying the Past -- 3.2.1. The Past, Rightly Applied -- 3.2.2. Applying the Right Past -- 3.3 Three Key Techniques -- 3.3.1. The Continuum in Peril? -- 3.3.2. Athens by Others -- 3.3.3. The Uniqueness of Athens -- 3.4. Modelling Demosthenes -- 3.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Against Meidias and Against Timarchus -- 4.1. Introduction and Overview -- 4.2. Demosthenes: Against Meidias -- 4.2.1. Demosthenes' Approach -- 4.2.2. Meidias and Alcibiades -- 4.2.3. Summary -- 4.3. Aeschines: Against Timarchus -- 4.3.1. Aeschines' Parallel Athens -- 4.3.2. Casting, Ēthos, and Anticipation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: The Embassy Trial -- 5.1. Introduction, Overview, and Text -- 5.2. Demosthenes and the Prosecution -- 5.2.1. Aeschines and Solon -- 5.2.2. Aeschines as Envoy: The Timagoras Parallel -- 5.3. Aeschines and Defence -- 5.3.1. Confronting Demosthenes -- 5.3.2. Aeschines at Pella (2.25-33 and 113-18) -- 5.3.3. Aeschines' Fifth Century (2.172-7) -- 5.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 6: The Crown Trial.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780192599124
    Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
    Subjects: Demosthenes-Criticism and interpretation; Electronic books
    Scope: 1 online resource (424 pages)
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