The Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies) - Hardcover

 
9780367228200: The Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies)
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ISBN 10: 0367228203 ISBN 13: 9780367228200
Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

Focusing on extant speeches from the Athenian Assembly, law, and Council in the fifth–fourth centuries BCE, 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 an insightful 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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About the Author

Jakub Filonik is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.

Brenda Griffith-Williams is Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London, UK.

Janek Kucharski is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367228203
ISBN 13 
9780367228200
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
230
Editor
Filonik Jakub, Griffith-Williams Brenda, Kucharski Janek

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