The Documents in the Attic Orators: Laws and Decrees in the Public Speeches of the Demosthenic Corpus - Couverture rigide

Canevaro, Mirko

 
9780199668908: The Documents in the Attic Orators: Laws and Decrees in the Public Speeches of the Demosthenic Corpus
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0199668906 ISBN 13 : 9780199668908
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2013

Synopsis

In this volume, Mirko Canevaro studies the 'state' documents (laws and decrees) preserved in the public speeches of the Demosthenic corpus. These documents purport to be Athenian statutes and, if authentic, provide invaluable information about Athenian history, law, and institutions. Offering a comprehensive account of the presence of the documents in the corpora of the orators and in the manuscript tradition, this volume summarizes previous scholarship and delineates a new methodology for analyzing the documents.

Examining the documents found in Demosthenes' On the Crown, Against Meidias, Against Aristocrates, Against Timocrates, and Apollodorus' Against Neaera, the core of the volume, which includes a chapter by Edward M. Harris, provides a guide for the reliability of the individual documents, and advances new interpretations of important Athenian laws, such as homicide regulations, legislative procedures, laws on theft, seduction, naturalization, and outlawry. Canevaro argues that some of the documents have been inserted into the speeches in an Athenian environment at the beginning of the third century BC and are therefore reliable, while many others are later forgeries. These forgeries are early products of the tradition of historical declamations and progymnasmata, and could be used as evidence of Hellenistic oratory and rhetorical education.

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À propos de l'auteur

Mirko Canevaro is Chancellor's Fellow in Classics at the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology, The University of Edinburgh.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0199668906
ISBN 13 
9780199668908
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
408
Coordonnées du fabricant
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