TY - BOOK ID - 17081403 TI - Oxford Readings in the Attic Orators PY - 2007 VL - *5 SN - 9780199279937 0199279934 9780199279920 0199279926 9786611164898 1281164895 0191535567 9780191535567 6611164898 9781281164896 PB - Oxford New York Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek KW - Political oratory KW - Rhetoric, Ancient. KW - Oratory, Ancient. KW - History and criticism. KW - Athens (Greece) KW - Intellectual life. KW - Politics and government. KW - Oratory, Ancient KW - Rhetoric, Ancient KW - Ancient rhetoric KW - Classical languages KW - Greek language KW - Greek rhetoric KW - Latin language KW - Latin rhetoric KW - Parliamentary oratory KW - Political speaking KW - Oratory KW - Politics, Practical KW - Public speaking KW - Rhetoric KW - History and criticism KW - Political aspects KW - Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek - History and criticism. KW - Political oratory - Greece - Athens. KW - Athens (Greece) - Intellectual life. KW - Athens (Greece) - Politics and government. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17081403 AB - A collection of fourteen essays by influential scholars on the `Attic Orators', the ten or so speechwriters who developed rhetoric in democratic Athens from c.420 to c.320 BC. All Greek quotations have been translated. - ;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 ER -