The Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory

Jakub Filonik

ISBN 10: 103233763X / ISBN 13: 9781032337630

Verlag: Routledge, 2022

Beschreibung

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781032337630

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory
• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 103233763X
• ISBN-13: 9781032337630
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 234B x 156 H x 13 T Millimeter Breite: 234 mm, Höhe: 156 mm, Tiefe: 13 mm
• Gewicht: 360 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.