The Orators And Their Treatment Of The Recent Past

Author : Aggelos Kapellos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110791969

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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 : Aggelos Kapellos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : Henry Hardwicke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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History Of Oratory And Orators by Henry Hardwicke Pdf

Author : Joshua P. Nudell
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472903870

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Accustomed to Obedience? by Joshua P. Nudell Pdf

Many histories of Ancient Greece center their stories on Athens, but what would that history look like if they didn’t? There is another way to tell this story, one that situates Greek history in terms of the relationships between smaller Greek cities and in contact with the wider Mediterranean. In this book, author Joshua P. Nudell offers a new history of the period from the Persian wars to wars that followed the death of Alexander the Great, from the perspective of Ionia. While recent scholarship has increasingly treated Greece through the lenses of regional, polis, and local interaction, there has not yet been a dedicated study of Classical Ionia. This book fills this clear gap in the literature while offering Ionia as a prism through which to better understand Classical Greece. This book offers a clear and accessible narrative of the period between the Persian Wars and the wars of the early Hellenistic period, two nominal liberations of the region. The volume complements existing histories of Classical Greece. Close inspection reveals that the Ionians were active partners in the imperial endeavor, even as imperial competition constrained local decision-making and exacerbated local and regional tensions. At the same time, the book offers interventions on critical issues related to Ionia such as the Athenian conquest of Samos, rhetoric about the freedom of the Greeks, the relationship between Ionian temple construction and economic activity, the status of the Panionion, Ionian poleis and their relationship with local communities beyond the circle of the dodecapolis, and the importance of historical memory to our understanding of ancient Greece. The result is a picture of an Aegean world that is more complex and less beholden narratives that give primacy to the imperial actors at the expense of local developments.

Author : Guy Westwood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192599117

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The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines by Guy Westwood Pdf

In democratic Athens, mass citizen audiences - whether in the lawcourts, or in the political Assembly and Council, or when gathered for formal civic occasions - frequently heard politicians and litigants discussing the city's past, and manipulating it for persuasive ends. The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines explores how these dynamics worked in practice, taking two prominent mid-fourth-century politicians (and bitter adversaries) as focal points. While most recent scholarly treatments of how the Athenians recalled their past concentrate on collective processes, this work looks instead at the rhetorical strategies devised by individual orators, examining what it meant for Demosthenes or Aeschines to present particular 'historical' examples, arguments, and illustrations in particular contexts. It argues that discussing the Athenian past - and therefore discussing a core aspect of Athenian identity itself - offered Demosthenes and Aeschines, among others, an effective and versatile means both of building and highlighting their own credibility, authority, and commitment to the democracy and its values, and of competing with their rivals, whose own versions and handling of the past they could challenge and undermine as a symbolic attack on those rivals' wider competence. Recourse to versions of the past also offered orators a way of reflecting on a troubled contemporary geopolitical landscape in which Athens first confronted the enterprising Philip II of Macedon and then coped with Macedonian hegemony. The work covers the full range of Demosthenes' and Aeschines' surviving public speeches, and the extended opening chapter includes synoptic surveys of key individual topics which feed into the main discussion.

Author : David Addison Harsha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Orators
ISBN : PSU:000015533326

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The Most Eminent Orators and Statesmen of Ancient and Modern Times by David Addison Harsha Pdf

Author : Guy Westwood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192599124

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The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines by Guy Westwood Pdf

In democratic Athens, mass citizen audiences - whether in the lawcourts, or in the political Assembly and Council, or when gathered for formal civic occasions - frequently heard politicians and litigants discussing the city's past, and manipulating it for persuasive ends. The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines explores how these dynamics worked in practice, taking two prominent mid-fourth-century politicians (and bitter adversaries) as focal points. While most recent scholarly treatments of how the Athenians recalled their past concentrate on collective processes, this work looks instead at the rhetorical strategies devised by individual orators, examining what it meant for Demosthenes or Aeschines to present particular 'historical' examples, arguments, and illustrations in particular contexts. It argues that discussing the Athenian past - and therefore discussing a core aspect of Athenian identity itself - offered Demosthenes and Aeschines, among others, an effective and versatile means both of building and highlighting their own credibility, authority, and commitment to the democracy and its values, and of competing with their rivals, whose own versions and handling of the past they could challenge and undermine as a symbolic attack on those rivals' wider competence. Recourse to versions of the past also offered orators a way of reflecting on a troubled contemporary geopolitical landscape in which Athens first confronted the enterprising Philip II of Macedon and then coped with Macedonian hegemony. The work covers the full range of Demosthenes' and Aeschines' surviving public speeches, and the extended opening chapter includes synoptic surveys of key individual topics which feed into the main discussion.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Orators
ISBN : PURD:32754060337106

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The World's Orators by Anonim Pdf

Author : Guy Carleton Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Orators
ISBN : OSU:32435026446971

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The World's Orators by Guy Carleton Lee Pdf

Author : Jonas Grethlein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521110778

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The Greeks and Their Past by Jonas Grethlein Pdf

Investigates literary memory in the fifth century BCE, covering poetry and oratory as well as the first Greek historians.

Author : Stephen Usher
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191584770

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Greek Oratory by Stephen Usher Pdf

Speakers address audiences in the earliest Greek literature, but oratory became a distinct genre in the late fifth century and reached its maturity in the fourth. This book traces the development of its techniques by examining the contribution made by each orator. Dr Usher makes the speeches come alive for the reader through an in-depth analysis of the problems of composition and the likely responses of contemporary audiences. His study differs from previous books in its recognition of the richness of the early tradition which made innovation difficult, however, the orators are revealed as men of remarkable talent, versatility, and resource. Antiphon's pioneering role, Lysias' achievement of balance between the parts of the speech, the establishment of oratory as a medium of political thought by Demosthenes and Isocrates, and the individual characteristics of other orators - Andocides, Isaeus, Lycurgus, Hyperides, Dinarchus and Apollodorus - together make a fascinating study in evolution; while the illustrative texts of the orators (which are translated into English) include some of the liveliest and most moving passages in Greek literature.

Author : Ian Worthington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134628919

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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 : Cecil Wooten
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004350984

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The Orator in Action and Theory in Greece and Rome by Cecil Wooten Pdf

This volume is a collection of essays, written by authorities in the field, on many aspects of ancient rhetoric. These essays deal both with the theory of rhetoric and the practice of oratory and are quite diverse both in tone and audience envisioned. Some of them deal with very basic questions such as how good an orator should appear to be; others deal with very technical matters such as theoretical considerations of issue theory or "figured speeches". Some are focussed on the actual practice of oratory in speeches such as those of Cicero and Caesar; others deal with manifestations of oratory in historical works such as the Histories of Herodotus or reflections on the nature of oratory in works like the Dialogus of Tacitus. One considers parallel developments in rhetorical and artistic treatments of the legend of Busiris.

Author : Hardwicke Henry 1861-1909
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1313492086

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History of Oratory and Orators; a Study of the Influence of Oratory Upon Politics and Literature by Hardwicke Henry 1861-1909 Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : William Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Greece
ISBN : PRNC:32101065412940

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A History of Greece by William Smith Pdf