Didymos on Demosthenes

Didymos on Demosthenes

Author: Didymus (Chalcenterus.)

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 0198150431

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This edition of the papyrus containing Didymos' comments on some of Demosthenes' speeches aims to provide the student with a new reading of the text, a facing translation that is carefully edited for those who cannot use the Greek to show what is extant and what is restored, and a detailed commentary that considers all issues related to the restoration of the text and to its historical content. All Greek is translated into English so that the discussion is fully accessible. In addition, throughout the introduction and commentary an attempt is made to arrive at a balanced appraisal of Didymos' position in the history of scholarship.


Didymos: On Demosthenes

Didymos: On Demosthenes

Author: Phillip Harding

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2006-04-06

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 0191518336

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This edition of the papyrus containing Didymos' comments on some of Demosthenes' speeches aims to provide the student with a new reading of the text, a facing translation that is carefully edited for those who cannot use the Greek to show what is extant and what is restored, and a detailed commentary that considers all issues related to the restoration of the text and to its historical content. All Greek is translated into English so that the discussion is fully accessible. In addition, throughout the introduction and commentary an attempt is made to arrive at a balanced appraisal of Didymos' position in the history of scholarship.


Demosthenes the Orator

Demosthenes the Orator

Author: Douglas M. MacDowell

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-12-03

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 0199287198

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In the most comprehensive account available of the texts of Demosthenes, Douglas M. MacDowell describes and assesses all of the great orator's speeches, including those for the lawcourts as well as the addresses to the Ekklesia. Besides the genuine speeches, MacDowell also covers those which have probably wrongly been ascribed to Demosthenes, such as the ones written for delivery by Apollodorus; and he considers too the Epistles, the Prooemia, and the puzzling Erotic Speech.


The Oxford Handbook of Demosthenes

The Oxford Handbook of Demosthenes

Author: Gunther Martin

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 0198713851

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As a speechwriter, orator, and politician, Demosthenes captured, embodied, and shaped his time. This Handbook explores the many facets of his life, work, and time, giving particular weight to his social and historical context and thereby illustrating the interplay and mutual influence between his rhetoric and the environment from which it emerged.


Orality and Performance in Classical Attic Prose

Orality and Performance in Classical Attic Prose

Author: Alessandro Vatri

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 0198795904

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This study discusses the question of whether there is a linguistic difference between classical Attic prose texts intended for public oral delivery and those intended for written circulation and private performance. Identifying such a difference which exclusively reflects these disparities in modes of reception has proven to be a difficult challenge for both literary scholars and cultural historians of the ancient world, with answers not always satisfactory from a methodological and an analytical point of view. The legitimacy of the question is first addressed through a definition of what such slippery notions as "orality" and "oral performance" mean in the context of classical Athens, reconstruction of the situations in which the extant prose texts were meant to be received, and an explanation of the grounds on which we may expect linguistic features of the texts to be related to such situations. The idea that texts conceived for public delivery needed to be as clear as possible is substantiated by available cultural-historical and anthropological facts; however, these do not imply that the opposite was required of texts conceived for private reception. In establishing a rigorous methodology for the reconstruction of the native perception of clarity in the original contexts of textual reception this study offers a novel approach to assessing orality in classical Greek prose through examination of linguistic and grammatical features of style. It builds upon the theoretical insights and current experimental findings of modern psycholinguistics, providing scholars with a new key to the minds of ancient writers and audiences.


More Texts from the Archive of Socrates

More Texts from the Archive of Socrates

Author: Mohamed Gaber El-Maghrabi

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2021-07-05

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 3110714523

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This volume contains editions of 35 texts, which have been excavated nearly 100 years ago in the ancient Egyptian village of Karanis, and which were still waiting publication. As all texts written on papyrus from the Egyptian countryside, these texts give a new insight into the life of the people who dwelled in a typical village of the Roman period in Egypt. The texts show the cultural diversity of those who cohabitated, whether they had Greek or Egyptian names, whether their main gods were the crocodiles or Zeus. In the lives of all of them tax-paying played an important role, as well as caring for their cattle and fields, doing business, and fullfilling the obligations of the Roman government. In particular interesting is the personage of Socrates the tax-collector. Since the ruins of Karanis are still standing (and worth a visit) with two nearly intact temples from the period of the texts, a more complete image of village life emerges from texts and the archaeology behind them. Papyrologists welcome every newly published text as a further stone of the mosaic image that they try to create of the past.


Decrees of Fourth-Century Athens (403/2-322/1 BC): Volume 1, The Literary Evidence

Decrees of Fourth-Century Athens (403/2-322/1 BC): Volume 1, The Literary Evidence

Author:

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-03-05

Total Pages: 1010

ISBN-13: 1316952681

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Decree-making is a defining aspect of ancient Greek political activity: it was the means by which city-state communities went about deciding to get things done. This two-volume work provides a new view of the decree as an institution within the framework of fourth-century Athenian democratic political activity. Volume 1 consists of a comprehensive account of the literary evidence for decrees of the fourth-century Athenian assembly. Volume 2 analyses how decrees and decree-making, by offering both an authoritative source for the narrative of the history of the Athenian demos and a legitimate route for political self-promotion, came to play an important role in shaping Athenian democratic politics. Peter Liddel assesses ideas about, and the reality of, the dissemination of knowledge of decrees among both Athenians and non-Athenians and explains how they became significant to the wider image and legacy of the Athenians.


The Story of Athens

The Story of Athens

Author: Phillip Harding

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-10-31

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1134304471

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A leading authority in the field, Phillip Harding presents the very first English translations of the six Athenian writers known as the Atthidographers. In his vivid and detailed history, Harding examines the remaining fragments of these historical writers' work – in chronological order – and how these writings, dating from the fifth and fourth century BC, reveal an invaluable wealth of information about early Athenian history, legend, religion, customs and anecdotes. Harding also goes on to study how these histories of Athens and its people were the source for later surviving historians such as Plutarch and Diodorus. With the aid of linking text and detailed annotation, anyone with an interest in Athenian history, classical Greece need look no further.


Our Beloved Polites: Studies presented to P.J. Rhodes

Our Beloved Polites: Studies presented to P.J. Rhodes

Author: Delfim Leão

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2022-08-25

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 180327171X

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Twenty-eight contributions pay tribute to one of the most remarkable historians of ancient Greece, Professor P. J. Rhodes, to celebrate his life and work which has been and will continue to be a major reference for scholars around the world. The volume is organised in four sections: History and Biography, Law, Politics, and Epigraphy.


The Documents in the Attic Orators

The Documents in the Attic Orators

Author: Mirko Canevaro

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2013-07-18

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 0199668906

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In this volume Canevaro studies the 'state' documents preserved in the public speeches of the Demosthenic corpus. Offering a comprehensive account of the documents in the corpora of the orators and in the manuscript tradition, Canevaro summarizes previous scholarship and delineates a new methodology for analyzing the documents.