Author: Antiphon
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292728097
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
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, and other aspects of Athenian culture that have been largely ignored: women and family life, slavery, and religion, to name just a few. This volume contains the works of the two earliest surviving orators, Antiphon and Andocides. Antiphon (ca. 480-411) was a leading Athenian intellectual and creator of the profession of logography ("speech writing"), whose special interest was law and justice. His six surviving works all concern homicide cases. Andocides (ca. 440-390) was involved in two religious scandals—the mutilation of the Herms (busts of Hermes) and the revelation of the Eleusinian Mysteries—on the eve of the fateful Athenian expedition to Sicily in 415. His speeches are a defense against charges relating to those events.
Antiphon and Andocides
Author: Antiphon
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292728097
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
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, and other aspects of Athenian culture that have been largely ignored: women and family life, slavery, and religion, to name just a few. This volume contains the works of the two earliest surviving orators, Antiphon and Andocides. Antiphon (ca. 480-411) was a leading Athenian intellectual and creator of the profession of logography ("speech writing"), whose special interest was law and justice. His six surviving works all concern homicide cases. Andocides (ca. 440-390) was involved in two religious scandals—the mutilation of the Herms (busts of Hermes) and the revelation of the Eleusinian Mysteries—on the eve of the fateful Athenian expedition to Sicily in 415. His speeches are a defense against charges relating to those events.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292728097
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
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, and other aspects of Athenian culture that have been largely ignored: women and family life, slavery, and religion, to name just a few. This volume contains the works of the two earliest surviving orators, Antiphon and Andocides. Antiphon (ca. 480-411) was a leading Athenian intellectual and creator of the profession of logography ("speech writing"), whose special interest was law and justice. His six surviving works all concern homicide cases. Andocides (ca. 440-390) was involved in two religious scandals—the mutilation of the Herms (busts of Hermes) and the revelation of the Eleusinian Mysteries—on the eve of the fateful Athenian expedition to Sicily in 415. His speeches are a defense against charges relating to those events.
Andocides De mysteriis
Author: Andocides
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Category : Athens (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Category : Athens (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
A Rhetorical Study of the Style of Andocides
Author: Samuel Shipman Kingsbury
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Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Languages : en
Pages : 52
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The Oration De Mysteriis of Andocides
Author: Andocides
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Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Greek Orators: Andocides
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Category : Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Category : Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Antiphon and Andocides
Author:
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292781849
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
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, and other aspects of Athenian culture that have been largely ignored: women and family life, slavery, and religion, to name just a few. This volume contains the works of the two earliest surviving orators, Antiphon and Andocides. Antiphon (ca. 480-411) was a leading Athenian intellectual and creator of the profession of logography ("speech writing"), whose special interest was law and justice. His six surviving works all concern homicide cases. Andocides (ca. 440-390) was involved in two religious scandals—the mutilation of the Herms (busts of Hermes) and the revelation of the Eleusinian Mysteries—on the eve of the fateful Athenian expedition to Sicily in 415. His speeches are a defense against charges relating to those events.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292781849
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
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, and other aspects of Athenian culture that have been largely ignored: women and family life, slavery, and religion, to name just a few. This volume contains the works of the two earliest surviving orators, Antiphon and Andocides. Antiphon (ca. 480-411) was a leading Athenian intellectual and creator of the profession of logography ("speech writing"), whose special interest was law and justice. His six surviving works all concern homicide cases. Andocides (ca. 440-390) was involved in two religious scandals—the mutilation of the Herms (busts of Hermes) and the revelation of the Eleusinian Mysteries—on the eve of the fateful Athenian expedition to Sicily in 415. His speeches are a defense against charges relating to those events.
Minor Attic Orators: Antiphon. Andocides
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Category : Orators
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Category : Orators
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Nomodeiktes
Author: Martin Ostwald
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472102976
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Fascinating discussions of fifth-century Athens and its modern interpretation
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472102976
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Fascinating discussions of fifth-century Athens and its modern interpretation
Literary Texts and the Greek Historian
Author: Christopher Pelling
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134906390
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Our knowledge of Greek history rests largely on literary texts - not merely historians (especially Herodotus, Thucylides and Xenephon), but also tragedies, comedies, speeches, biographies and philosophical works. These texts are themselves among the most skilled and highly wrought productions of a brilliant rhetorical culture. How is the historian to use them? This book addresses this problem by taking a series of extended test-cases, and discussing how we should and should not try to exploit the texts. In some instances we can investigate 'what really happened', and the ways in which the texts manipulate, remould, or colour it according to their own rhetorical strategies; in others the most illuminating aspect may be those strategies themselves, and what they tell us about the culture - how it figured questions of sex and gender, politics, citizenship and the city, the law and the courts and how wars happen. Literary Texts and the Greek Historian concentrates on Athens in the second half of the fifth-century, when many of the principal genres came together, but includes some examples from earlier (Aeschylus ^Oresteia) and later (including Aristotles poetics). Literary Texts and the Greek Historian examines the range of responses to these texts and suggests new ways in which literary criticism can illuminate the society from which these texts sprang.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134906390
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Our knowledge of Greek history rests largely on literary texts - not merely historians (especially Herodotus, Thucylides and Xenephon), but also tragedies, comedies, speeches, biographies and philosophical works. These texts are themselves among the most skilled and highly wrought productions of a brilliant rhetorical culture. How is the historian to use them? This book addresses this problem by taking a series of extended test-cases, and discussing how we should and should not try to exploit the texts. In some instances we can investigate 'what really happened', and the ways in which the texts manipulate, remould, or colour it according to their own rhetorical strategies; in others the most illuminating aspect may be those strategies themselves, and what they tell us about the culture - how it figured questions of sex and gender, politics, citizenship and the city, the law and the courts and how wars happen. Literary Texts and the Greek Historian concentrates on Athens in the second half of the fifth-century, when many of the principal genres came together, but includes some examples from earlier (Aeschylus ^Oresteia) and later (including Aristotles poetics). Literary Texts and the Greek Historian examines the range of responses to these texts and suggests new ways in which literary criticism can illuminate the society from which these texts sprang.
The Greeks and Their Past
Author: Jonas Grethlein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521110777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Investigates literary memory in the fifth century BCE, covering poetry and oratory as well as the first Greek historians.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521110777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Investigates literary memory in the fifth century BCE, covering poetry and oratory as well as the first Greek historians.