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Forensic Narratives in Athenian Courts
Forensic Narratives in Athenian Courts breaks new ground by exploring different aspects of forensic storytelling in Athenian legal speeches and the ways in which forensic narratives reflect normative concerns and legal issues.
The chapters, written by distinguished experts in Athenian oratory and society, explore the importance of narratives for the arguments of relatively underdiscussed orators such as Isaeus and Apollodorus. They employ new methods to investigate issues such as speeches’ deceptiveness or the appraisals which constitute the emotion scripts that speakers put together. This volume not only addresses a gap in the field of Athenian oratory, but also encourages comparative approaches to forensic narratives and fiction, and fresh investigations of the implications of forensic storytelling for other literary genres.
Forensic Narratives in Athenian Courts will be an invaluable resource to students and researchers of Athenian oratory and their legal system, as well as those working on Greek society and literature more broadly.
Contents:
Preface / Mike Edwards and Dimos Spatharas --
Introduction / Dimos Spatharas --
Storytelling in Athenian law / Michael Gagarin --
Storytelling about laws and money : Solon on stage (Demosthenes 24.212-214) / Catherine Psilakis --
The devil's in the detail : including "irrelevant" details in homicide narratives / Christine Plastow --
Social norms and the legal framework of forensic narratives in disputed inheritance claims / Brenda Griffith-Williams --
Deceptive narratives in the speeches of Isaeus / Mike Edwards --
The story about the jury / Peter A. O'Connell --
Inciting Thorubos and narrative strategies in attic forensic speeches / Noboru Sato --
Political ideology and character portrayal in Apollodorus' forensic narratives : [Dem.] 50 against Polycles / Kostas Apostolakis --
Reconstructing the past : forensic storytelling about the Athenian constitution in Lysias 12 and 13 / Eleni Volonaki --
As if you were there : enargeia and spatiality in Lysias 1 / Ruth Webb --
Temporal irony in Athenian forensic narrative : Lysias 1 on the murder of Eratosthenes / Victoria Wohl --
Narrative and emotions in Pseudo-Demosthenes 47, against Euergus and Mnesiboulus / Nick Fisher --
Truth and deception in Athenian forensic narratives : an assessment of Demosthenes 54 and Lysias 3 / Christos Kremmydas --
Greek teachings about forensic narrative / Rosalia Hatzilambrou.
The chapters, written by distinguished experts in Athenian oratory and society, explore the importance of narratives for the arguments of relatively underdiscussed orators such as Isaeus and Apollodorus. They employ new methods to investigate issues such as speeches’ deceptiveness or the appraisals which constitute the emotion scripts that speakers put together. This volume not only addresses a gap in the field of Athenian oratory, but also encourages comparative approaches to forensic narratives and fiction, and fresh investigations of the implications of forensic storytelling for other literary genres.
Forensic Narratives in Athenian Courts will be an invaluable resource to students and researchers of Athenian oratory and their legal system, as well as those working on Greek society and literature more broadly.
Contents:
Preface / Mike Edwards and Dimos Spatharas --
Introduction / Dimos Spatharas --
Storytelling in Athenian law / Michael Gagarin --
Storytelling about laws and money : Solon on stage (Demosthenes 24.212-214) / Catherine Psilakis --
The devil's in the detail : including "irrelevant" details in homicide narratives / Christine Plastow --
Social norms and the legal framework of forensic narratives in disputed inheritance claims / Brenda Griffith-Williams --
Deceptive narratives in the speeches of Isaeus / Mike Edwards --
The story about the jury / Peter A. O'Connell --
Inciting Thorubos and narrative strategies in attic forensic speeches / Noboru Sato --
Political ideology and character portrayal in Apollodorus' forensic narratives : [Dem.] 50 against Polycles / Kostas Apostolakis --
Reconstructing the past : forensic storytelling about the Athenian constitution in Lysias 12 and 13 / Eleni Volonaki --
As if you were there : enargeia and spatiality in Lysias 1 / Ruth Webb --
Temporal irony in Athenian forensic narrative : Lysias 1 on the murder of Eratosthenes / Victoria Wohl --
Narrative and emotions in Pseudo-Demosthenes 47, against Euergus and Mnesiboulus / Nick Fisher --
Truth and deception in Athenian forensic narratives : an assessment of Demosthenes 54 and Lysias 3 / Christos Kremmydas --
Greek teachings about forensic narrative / Rosalia Hatzilambrou.
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First published August 22, 2019
About the author
Michael Edwards
11 booksSee also works published as Mike Edwards
Mike Edwards is Professor of Classics at the University of Roehampton, London, where he was previously Head of Humanities (2015-2017), and he is also an Overseas Fellow of the Onassis Foundation (2017-2018). Previously, he was Head of the School of Classics at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, and before that Director of the Institute of Classical Studies in the University of London, where he is now a Senior Research Fellow, and Professor of Classics at Queen Mary, University of London.
He is the Immediate Past President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, after serving as Vice-President (2013-2015) and President (2015-2017), and he was a Founder Member of the Accordia Research Institute. He has been editor of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Classical Review, and Rhetorica.
His research focuses on classical oratory and rhetoric, in particular the speeches of the Attic Orators, on whom he has published extensively, including commentaries on speeches of Antiphon, Andocides, and Lysias. He is currently preparing an Oxford Classical Text of the fourth-century orator Isaeus, and a commentary on Aeschines for the Aris and Phillips series.
Mike has also published on Plutarch and the English scientist Francis Bacon, and he is collaborating on a five-volume edition of the works of Statius for Cambridge Scholars Publishing, three of which have already been published.
Mike Edwards is Professor of Classics at the University of Roehampton, London, where he was previously Head of Humanities (2015-2017), and he is also an Overseas Fellow of the Onassis Foundation (2017-2018). Previously, he was Head of the School of Classics at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, and before that Director of the Institute of Classical Studies in the University of London, where he is now a Senior Research Fellow, and Professor of Classics at Queen Mary, University of London.
He is the Immediate Past President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, after serving as Vice-President (2013-2015) and President (2015-2017), and he was a Founder Member of the Accordia Research Institute. He has been editor of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Classical Review, and Rhetorica.
His research focuses on classical oratory and rhetoric, in particular the speeches of the Attic Orators, on whom he has published extensively, including commentaries on speeches of Antiphon, Andocides, and Lysias. He is currently preparing an Oxford Classical Text of the fourth-century orator Isaeus, and a commentary on Aeschines for the Aris and Phillips series.
Mike has also published on Plutarch and the English scientist Francis Bacon, and he is collaborating on a five-volume edition of the works of Statius for Cambridge Scholars Publishing, three of which have already been published.
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