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Antiphon: The Speeches Antiphon

Antiphon: The Speeches By Antiphon

Antiphon: The Speeches by Antiphon


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Summary

A commentary on the six surviving speeches of the fifth-century BC orator Antiphon.

Antiphon: The Speeches Summary

Antiphon: The Speeches by Antiphon

This volume provides a commentary on the six surviving speeches of the fifth-century BC Athenian orator Antiphon, all of which concern homicide, together with a fragment of Antiphon's final speech at his own trial for treason in 411 BC. The commentary discusses grammatical, stylistic, textual, legal, rhetorical, historical and other matters and focuses especially on Antiphon's argumentation and forensic strategy: why he presents these arguments in this particular way. The work includes a new Greek text which restores some of the special qualities of Antiphon's style that twentieth-century editors have edited out and a substantial introduction to the life and work of Antiphon, the nature of Athenian law and legal oratory and the style and textual tradition of Antiphon.

Antiphon: The Speeches Reviews

'This is an excellent volume for anyone needing to read Antiphon closely, and will provide much of the assistance required by experienced students,' James Hutchinson, JACT

Table of Contents

Introduction: 1. Attic oratory; 2. Life of Antiphon; 3. Works; 4. Athenian law; 5. Law and oratory; the sophists; 6. Antiphon's forensic argumentation; 7. The rhetoric of law; 8. Language and style; 9. Text; 10. Abbreviations; Text; Commentary; Bibliography; Indices.

Additional information

NPB9780521380294
9780521380294
0521380294
Antiphon: The Speeches by Antiphon
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
1997-02-13
280
N/A
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