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In A Commentary on Selected Speeches of Isaios , Brenda Griffith-Williams offers a fresh insight, accessible to non-Greek readers, into four disputed inheritance cases from the Athenian courts in the 4th century B.C. The only comprehensive English language commentary on Isaios (Wyse, 1904) reflects a negative view of the Athenian legal system as one in which the judges, who had no legal training, could be easily outwitted by an unscrupulous speechwriter with no regard for the truth. By addressing the complex interplay of factual, legal, and rhetorical issues in the selected speeches, Brenda Griffith-Williams identifies the strengths and weaknesses of each speaker's case and presents a more balanced assessment of Isaios's work.

Inheritance and succession (Greek law) --- Forensic orations --- Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek --- Successions et héritages (Droit grec) --- Débats judiciaires --- Discours grecs --- Isaeus, --- Inheritance and succession --- History --- Translations into English --- Successions et héritages (Droit grec) --- Débats judiciaires --- Bequests --- Descent and distribution --- Descents --- Hereditary succession --- Intestacy --- Intestate succession --- Law of succession --- Succession, Intestate --- Real property --- Universal succession --- Trusts and trustees --- Law, Greek --- Arguments, Legal --- Legal arguments --- Oral pleading --- Speeches, addresses, etc. --- Trial practice --- Forensic oratory --- Law and legislation --- Isaios, --- Isajos, --- Isej, --- Iseo, --- Iseu, --- Inheritance and succession - Greece - Athens - History - To 1500 --- Forensic orations - Greece - Athens - History - To 1500 --- Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek - Translations into English --- Isaeus, - approximately 420 B.C.-approximately 350 B.C. - Translations into English --- Isaeus, - approximately 420 B.C.-approximately 350 B.C.

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"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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