The Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory

Jakub Filonik, Brenda Griffith-Williams, Janek Kucharski

ISBN 10: 0367228203 / ISBN 13: 9780367228200

Edité par Routledge, London - New York, 2019

A propos de cet article

xi - 217 pp. Routledge, London - New York, 2019. Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies. The Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory. First edition. Hardcover. No visible traces of usage. Ex library of the University of Ghent with one stamp on the first flyleaf, otherwise a very good/as new book.

N° de réf. du vendeur 011287

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory
• Éditeur: Routledge, London - New York
• Date de parution: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0367228203
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780367228200
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket
• Poids: 0,57 kilogramme
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Greece
  • Classical Antiquity
  • Literature

A propos de ce titre

Synopsis

Focusing on extant speeches from the Athenian Assembly, law, and Council in the fifth-fourth centuries BCE, these essays explore how speakers constructed or deconstructed identities for themselves and their opponents as part of a rhetorical strategy designed to persuade or manipulate the audience.

According to the needs of the occasion, speakers could identify the Athenian people either as a unified demos or as a collection of sub-groups, and they could exploit either differences or similarities between Athenians and other Greeks, and between Greeks and 'barbarians'. Names and naming strategies were an essential tool in the (de)construction of individuals' identities, while the Athenians' civic identity could be constructed in terms of honour(s), ethnicity, socio-economic status, or religion. Within the forensic setting, the physical location and procedural conventions of an Athenian trial could shape the identities of its participants in a unique if transient way.

The Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory is an insightful look at this understudied aspect of Athenian oratory and will be of interest to anyone working on the speeches themselves, identity in ancient Greece, or ancient oratory and rhetoric more broadly.

À propos de l?auteur

Jakub Filonik is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.

Brenda Griffith-Williams is Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London, UK.

Janek Kucharski is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.