The rhetoric of the past in Demosthenes and Aeschines : oratory, history, and politics in classical Athens / Guy Westwood.
2020
PA3823
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Title
The rhetoric of the past in Demosthenes and Aeschines : oratory, history, and politics in classical Athens / Guy Westwood.
Author
Westwood, Guy, 1986- author.
ISBN
9780191890130 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (432 pages).
Call Number
PA3823
Dewey Decimal Classification
885.01
Summary
This work examines how politicians in late classical Athens made persuasive use of the city's past when addressing mass citizen audiences, especially in the law courts and Assembly. It focuses on Demosthenes and Aeschines-both prominent statesmen, and bitter rivals-as its case-study orators. Recent scholarly treatments of how the Athenians remembered their past tend to concentrate on collective processes; to complement these, this work looks at the rhetorical strategies devised by individual orators, examining what it meant for Demosthenes or Aeschines to present particular 'historical' examples (or paradigms/paradeigmata), arguments, and illustrations in particular contexts.
Note
This work examines how politicians in late classical Athens made persuasive use of the city's past when addressing mass citizen audiences, especially in the law courts and Assembly. It focuses on Demosthenes and Aeschines-both prominent statesmen, and bitter rivals-as its case-study orators. Recent scholarly treatments of how the Athenians remembered their past tend to concentrate on collective processes; to complement these, this work looks at the rhetorical strategies devised by individual orators, examining what it meant for Demosthenes or Aeschines to present particular 'historical' examples (or paradigms/paradeigmata), arguments, and illustrations in particular contexts.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 26, 2020).
Series
Oxford classical monographs.
Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780198857037
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