The Orator Demades

Author : Sviatoslav Dmitriev
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197517833

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The Orator Demades by Sviatoslav Dmitriev Pdf

This is the first monograph in English about Demades, an influential Athenian politician from the fourth century B.C. An orator whose fame outlived him for hundreds of years, he was an acquaintance and collaborator of many political and military leaders of classical Greece, including the Macedonian king Philip II, his son and successor Alexander III (the Great), and the orator Demosthenes. An overwhelming portion of the available evidence on Demades dates to at least three centuries after his death and, often, much later. Contextualizing the sources within their historical and cultural framework, The Orator Demades delineates how later rhetorical practices and social norms transformed his image to better reflect the educational needs and political realities of the Roman imperial and Byzantine periods. The evolving image of Demades illustrates the role that rhetoric, as the basis of education and edification under the Roman and Byzantine Empires, played in creating an alternate, inauthentic vision of the classical past that continues to dominate modern scholarship and popular culture. As a result, the book raises a general question about the problematic foundations of our knowledge of classical Greece.

Author : Sviatoslav Dmitriev
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197517840

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The Orator Demades by Sviatoslav Dmitriev Pdf

This is the first monograph in English about Demades, an influential Athenian politician from the fourth century B.C. An orator whose fame outlived him for hundreds of years, he was an acquaintance and collaborator of many political and military leaders of classical Greece, including the Macedonian king Philip II, his son and successor Alexander III (the Great), and the orator Demosthenes. An overwhelming portion of the available evidence on Demades dates to at least three centuries after his death and, often, much later. Contextualizing the sources within their historical and cultural framework, The Orator Demades delineates how later rhetorical practices and social norms transformed his image to better reflect the educational needs and political realities of the Roman imperial and Byzantine periods. The evolving image of Demades illustrates the role that rhetoric, as the basis of education and edification under the Roman and Byzantine Empires, played in creating an alternate, inauthentic vision of the classical past that continues to dominate modern scholarship and popular culture. As a result, the book raises a general question about the problematic foundations of our knowledge of classical Greece.

Author : Aggelos Kapellos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110791877

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The Orators and Their Treatment of the Recent Past by Aggelos Kapellos Pdf

This volume focuses on the representation of the recent past in classical Athenian oratory and investigates the ability of the orators to interpret it according to their interests; the inability of the Athenians to make an objective assessment of it; and the unwillingness of the citizens to hear the truth, make self-criticism and take responsibility for bad results. Twenty-eight scholars have written chapters to this end, dealing with a wide range of themes, in terms both of contents and of chronology, from the fifth to the fourth century B.C. Each contributor has written a chapter that analyzes one or more historical events mentioned or alluded in the corpus of the Attic orators and covers the three species of Attic oratory. Chapters that treat other issues collectively are also included. The common feature of each contribution is an outline of the recent events that took place and influenced the citizens and/or the city of Athens and its juxtaposition with their rhetorical treatment by the orators either by comparing the rhetorical texts with the historical sources and/or by examining the rhetorical means through which the speakers model the recent past. This book aims at advanced students and professional scholars. This volume focuses on the representation of the recent past in classical Athenian oratory and investigates: the ability of the orators to interpret it according to their interests; the inability of the Athenians to make an objective assessment of persons and events of the recent past and their unwillingness to hear the truth, make self-criticism and take responsibility for bad results.

Author : Joseph Roisman,Ian Worthington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199687671

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Lives of the Attic Orators by Joseph Roisman,Ian Worthington Pdf

This volume provides a complete translation of, and historical and historiographical commentary on, the lives of the ten Attic orators given by Pseudo-Plutarch, Photius, and the Suda. Assessing these works as important historical sources for the individual lives and careers of the orators whose works have survived, this systematic study explores how these literary biographies were constructed, the information they provide, and their veracity. In-depth commentary notes offer contextual information, explain references and examine individual rhetorical phrases, and a glossary of technical terms provides a quick reference guide to the more obscure oratorical and political terms. The volume also includes a detailed introduction which discusses the evolution of Greek oratory and rhetoric; the so-called Canon of the Ten Orators; the authorship, dates, and sources of the biographies provided by Pseudo-Plutarch, Photius, and the Suda; and a brief consideration of orators whose speeches were either falsely attributed to Demosthenes or may be referenced in the ancient lives.

Author : Ian Worthington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134628926

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Demosthenes by Ian Worthington Pdf

Demosthenes is often adjudged the statesman par excellence, and his oratory as some of the finest to survive from classical times. Contemporary politicians still quote him in their speeches and for some he is the supreme example of a patriot. This landmark study of this remarkable man and his long career, the first to focus on him for more than 80 years, looks at the background behind this reputation and asks whether it is truly deserved.

Author : Douglas M. MacDowell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199287192

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Demosthenes the Orator by Douglas M. MacDowell Pdf

In the most comprehensive account available of the texts of Demosthenes, Douglas M. MacDowell describes and assesses all of the great orator's speeches, including those for the lawcourts as well as the addresses to the Ekklesia. Besides the genuine speeches, MacDowell also covers those which have probably wrongly been ascribed to Demosthenes, such as the ones written for delivery by Apollodorus; and he considers too the Epistles, the Prooemia, and the puzzling Erotic Speech.

Author : Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1823
Category : Greece
ISBN : NYPL:33433081553723

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The History of Greece, from the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great ; And, a Summary Account of the Affairs of Greece, from that Period to the Sacking of Constantinople by the Ottomans by Oliver Goldsmith Pdf

Author : Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : Greece
ISBN : HARVARD:32044011458825

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The History of Greece by Oliver Goldsmith Pdf

Author : Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000295349

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The Grecian History, from the Earliest State, to the Death of Alexander the Great. To which is Added, a Summary Account of the Affairs of Greece, from that Period, to the Sacking of Constantinople by the Ottomans by Oliver Goldsmith Pdf

Author : Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1823
Category : Greece
ISBN : OXFORD:300150276

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The History of Greece, from the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great by Oliver Goldsmith Pdf

Author : William F. Hansen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0801436702

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Ariadne's Thread by William F. Hansen Pdf

"Ariadne's Thread is a mini-encyclopedia of more than a hundred such international oral tales, all present in the literature of ancient Greece and Rome. It takes into account writings, including early Jewish and Christian literature, recorded in or translated into Greek or Latin by writers of any nationality. As a result, this book will be invaluable not only to classicists and folklorists but also to a wide range of other readers who are interested in stories and storytelling."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : John Frederic Dobson,J. F. Dobson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X001859060

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The Greek Orators by John Frederic Dobson,J. F. Dobson Pdf

Author : Joel Korytko
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004682047

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Death of the Covenant Code: Capital Punishment in Old Greek Exodus in Light of Greco-Egyptian Law by Joel Korytko Pdf

Many laws in the Old Greek translation of the Covenant Code do not say the same thing as the Hebrew text. In the past, various idiosyncrasies in the Greek translation of laws that involve the death penalty had been glossed over and considered stylistic variations or grammatical outliers. However, when the text-linguistic features of the Greek translation are compared to contemporary literary, documentary, and legal Greek sources, new readings emerge: cursing a parent is no longer punishable by death; a law about bestiality becomes a law about animal husbandry; the authority of certain legal commands is deregulated. This work explores these and other new readings in comparison with contemporary Greco-Egyptian law.

Author : H. John Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Protestantism
ISBN : MINN:31951002138387I

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The Merits of Protestantism Demonstrated by the Character of Man by H. John Lewis Pdf

Author : Katarzyna Ja:zd:zewska,Katarzyna Jażdżewska
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192893352

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Greek Dialogue in Antiquity by Katarzyna Ja:zd:zewska,Katarzyna Jażdżewska Pdf

Greek Dialogue in Antiquity reexamines evidence for Greek dialogue between the mid-fourth century BCE and the mid-first century CE - that is, roughly from Plato's death to the death of Philo of Alexandria. Although the genre of dialogue in antiquity has attracted a growing interest in the past two decades, the time covered in this book has remained overlooked and unresearched, with scholars believing that for much of this period the dialogue genre went through a period of decline and was revived only in the Roman times. The book carefully reassesses Post-Platonic and Hellenistic evidence, including papyri fragments, which have never been discussed in this context, and challenges the narrative of the dialogue's decline and subsequent revival, postulating, instead, the genre's unbroken continuity from the Classical period to the Roman Empire. It argues that dialogues and texts creatively interacting with dialogic conventions were composed throughout Hellenistic times, and proposes to reconceptualize the imperial period dialogue as evidence not of a resurgence, but of continuity in this literary tradition.