Antiphon: The Speeches (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (830 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521389313 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Essential for the student of Greek oratory Michael Gagarin deserves high praise for this volume on a very underappreciated Greek author. Until this book appeared, English readers were limited to the (good, but meager) annotations in the Loeb Classical Library's edition of the Minor Attic Orators. This volume contains the entire corpus of Antiphonmaking it more useful, in this respect, than several volumes in this (outstanding) series containing only selected parts of larger works. No other text is needed for the average classicist not speci
The book opens with a substantial introduction to the life and work of Antiphon and the nature of Athenian law and legal oratory. This is the first complete English commentary on Antiphon and the first in any language since 1838. This volume provides a commentary on the six speeches of the fifth-century BC Athenian orator Antiphon, all of which concern homicide. A new Greek text follows. The commentary itself discusses grammatical, stylistic, legal, rhetorical and historical matters.
. The commentary discusses grammatical, stylistic, textual, legal, rhetorical, historical and other matters and focuses especially on Antiphon's argumentation and forensic strategy: why he presents these arguments in this particular way. The work includes a new, fairly conservative, Greek text which restores some of the special qualities of Antiphon's style that twentieth-century editors have edited out; and a substantial introduction to the life and work of Antiphon (including the identity of the sophist Antiphon and the authenticity of the three Tetralogies), the nature of Athenian law and legal oratory (including the rhetoric of law), and the style and textual tradition of Antiphon. A bibliography and indices are included. From the Back Cover This volume provides a commentary on the si
He is the author of "Aeschylean Drama" (1976) and "Drakon and Early Athenian Homicide Law" (1981).Michael Gagarin is Professor of Classics at the University of Texas, Austin. Michael Gagarin is Professor of Classics at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of "Aeschylean Drama" (1976) and "Drakon and Early Athenian Homicide Law" (1981).