E. Carawan (dir.), Oxford Readings in the Attic Orators

Edwin Carawan (dir.), Oxford Readings in the Attic Orators. Oxford/New York:  Oxford University Press, coll. "Oxford Readings in Classical Studies", 2007.  xxiv, 450 pages. ISBN 9780199279937 $45.00 (pb) 
Recension par Jeremy Trevett (York University, Toronto) dans Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.02.23.

Présentation de l'éditeur:

The `Attic Orators' have left us a hundred speeches for lawsuits, a body of work that reveals an important connection between evolving rhetoric and the jury trial. The essays in this volume explore that formative linkage, representing the main directions of recent work on the Orators: the emergence of technical manuals and ghost-written speeches for prospective litigants; the technique for adapting documentary evidence to common-sense notions about probable motives and typical characters; and profiling the jury as the ultimate arbiter of values. An Introduction by the editor explores the speechwriter's art in terms of the imagined community. Four essays appear in English here for the first time, and all Greek has been translated.

Table des matières:

Preface v
Abbreviations ix
Introduction xi
I.The Lost Art and the First Written Speeches
1.The Written Plea of the Logographer 3
Marius Lavency
2.Lysias and his Clients 27
Stephen Usher
3.Who Was Corax? 37
Thomas Cole
4.Adultery by the Book: Lysias 1 (On the Murder of Eratosthenes)and Comic Diegesis 60
John R. Porter
II.The Tools of Argument: Procedure and Proof
5.Demosthenes as Advocate: The Functions and Methods of Legal Consultants in 91 Classical Athens
Hans Julius Wolff (with an epilogue by Gerhard Thr)
6.Law and Equity in the Attic Trial 116
Harald MeyerLaurin
7.Social Relations on Stage: Witnesses in Classical Athens 140
S. C. Humphreys
8.The Nature of Proofs in Antiphon 214
Michael Gagarin
9. Artless Proofs in Aristotle and the Orators 229
Christopher Carey
10.Torture and Rhetoric in Athens 247
David Mirhady
III.Casting the Jury
11.Ability and Education: The Power of Persuasion 271
Josiah Ober
12.Lady Chatterleys Lover and the Attic Orators: The Social Composition of the Athenian Jury 312
Stephen Todd
13.Arguments from Precedent in the Attic Orators 359
Lene Rubinstein
14.Politics as Literature: Demosthenes and the Burden of the Athenian Past 372
Harvey Yunis
A Glossary of Greek and Latin Terms 391
References 400
Acknowledgements 431
An Index of Passages Discussed
 

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