The making of identities in Athenian oratory
"Focusing on extant speeches from the Athenian Assembly, lawcourts, and Council in the 5th-4th centuries BC, these essays explore how speakers constructed or deconstructed identities for themselves and their opponents as part of a rhetorical strategy designed to persuade or manipulate the audie...
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| Sprache: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon
Routledge
2020
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| Schriftenreihe: | Routledge monographs in classical studies
Routledge monographs in classical studies |
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Focusing on extant speeches from the Athenian Assembly, lawcourts, and Council in the 5th-4th centuries BC, these essays explore how speakers constructed or deconstructed identities for themselves and their opponents as part of a rhetorical strategy designed to persuade or manipulate the audience. According to the needs of the occasion, speakers could identify the Athenian people either as a unified demos or as a collection of sub-groups, and they could exploit either differences or similarities between Athenians and other Greeks, and between Greeks and 'barbarians'. Names and naming strategies were an essential tool in the (de)construction of individuals' identities, while the Athenians' civic identity could be constructed in terms of honour(s), ethnicity, socio-economic status, or religion. Within the forensic setting, the physical location and procedural conventions of an Athenian trial could shape the identities of its participants in a unique if transient way. The Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory is a fascinating look at this understudied aspect of Athenian oratory, and will be of interest to anyone working on the speeches themselves, identity in ancient Greece, or ancient oratory and rhetoric more broadly"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 04, 2020) |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (xi, 217 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781000764086 0429277024 9781000763881 1000764087 9781000763980 1000763889 9780429277023 1000763986 |