UID:
almahu_9948095140502882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9780191782176 (ebook) :
Series Statement:
Oxford handbooks online
Content:
As a speechwriter, orator, and politician, Demosthenes captured, embodied, and shaped his time. This handbook explores the many facets of his life, work, and time, giving particular weight to his social and historical context and thereby illustrating the interplay and mutual influence between his rhetoric and the environment from which it emerged.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2018.
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Introduction /
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Diplomacy /
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Athenian Foreign Policy /
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Athenian State Finances /
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Military /
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Corruption /
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Views on the Past /
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Visions of Attica /
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Trade and Credit /
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Demosthenic Scholarship /
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The Social and Legal Position of Metics, Foreigners, and Slaves /
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The Ideology of Athenian Values /
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Local Communities, Neighbourhoods /
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Kinship /
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Religion /
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City and Countryside /
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The Biographic Tradition /
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Family, Formation, Extra-Political Activities /
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Political Career /
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Allies and Foes (I): Aeschines, Hyperides, Lycurgus /
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Literary Readings of Oratory /
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Allies and Foes (II): Politicians without Transmitted Speeches /
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Afterlife (Antiquity and Byzantine Era) /
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Afterlife (Modern Era) /
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Assembly/Public Speeches /
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Private Speeches /
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The Epitaphios, Erotikos, Prooimia, and Letters /
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Rhetorical Technique /
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Authenticity, Composition, Publication /
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Transmission of the Corpus Demosthenicum /
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Historical Readings of Oratory /
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The Place of Oratory in Fourth-Century Politics and Culture /
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Public Opinion and the Arenas of Debate /
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Law and Justice /
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Court Procedures and Arbitration /
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Political Elites /
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780198713852
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Ancient Studies
URL:
Oxford handbooks online
URL:
Oxford handbooks online
URL:
http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198713852.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780198713852
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198713852.001.0001
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