Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines

Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines

Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens

Westwood, Guy

Oxford University Press

04/2020

432

Dura

Inglês

9780198857037

15 a 20 dias

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Frontmatter
List of Editions, Translations, and Abbreviations
0: Introduction: Polyeuctus Imagines a Statue
1: The Orators and the Athenian Past
1.1. The Past in the Physical City
1.2. Fictions
1.3. Why the Past?
1.4. Using the Past
1.5. Approaches
1.6. An Outline of the Historical Context
1.7. Texts
1.7.1. Revision and Dissemination
1.7.2. Authenticity and Authorship
2: Demosthenes' Early Career: Against Leptines and Other Speeches
2.1. Introduction and Overview
2.2. Democracy in Danger?
2.3. Symbolic History
2.4. Conclusion
3: Demosthenes' Assembly Speeches
3.1. Introduction and Overview
3.2. Applying the Past
3.2.1. The Past, Rightly Applied
3.2.2. Applying the Right Past
3.3. Three Key Techniques
3.3.1. The Continuum in Peril?
3.3.2. Athens by Others
3.3.3. The Uniqueness of Athens
3.4. Modelling Demosthenes
3.5. Conclusion
4: Against Meidias and Against Timarchus
4.1. Introduction and Overview
4.2. Demosthenes: Against Meidias
4.2.1. Demosthenes' Approach
4.2.2. Meidias and Alcibiades
4.2.3. Summary
4.3. Aeschines: Against Timarchus
4.3.1. Aeschines' Parallel Athens
4.3.2. Casting, Ethos, and Anticipation
4.4. Conclusion
5: The Embassy Trial
5.1. Introduction, Overview, and Text
5.2. Demosthenes and the Prosecution
5.2.1. Aeschines and Solon
5.2.2. Aeschines as Envoy: the Timagoras Parallel
5.3. Aeschines and the Defence
5.3.1. Confronting Demosthenes
5.3.2. Aeschines at Pella (2.25-33 and 113-18)
5.3.3. Aeschines' Fifth Century (2.172-7)
5.4. Conclusion
6: The Crown Trial
6.1. Introduction, Overview, and Text
6.2. Darkest Hours, Finest Hours: Aeschines, Solon, Demosthenes
6.3. Aeschines Transfigured: the Epilogos of Against Ctesiphon and the Climax of On the Crown
6.4. Aeschines' Monuments and Demosthenes' Epilogos
6.5. Conclusion
7: Conclusion: Athens Transfigured
Endmatter:
Bibliography
Index Locorum
General Index
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