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Political Speeches in Athens

H. Ll Williams-Hudson

Classical Quarterly 1 (1-2):68- (1951)

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Aristotle's Knowledge of Athenian oratory1.J. C. Trevett - 1996 - Classical Quarterly 46 (02):371-.details In the Rhetoric Aristotle frequently illustrates the points he is making with examples drawn both from oratory and from other literary genres. Although some of these citations have been used to date the work, they have never been systematically examined. It is the contention of this article that, when Aristotle gives examples from speeches, he quotes exclusively from epideictic works, and that this fact tells us much both about the circulation of written speeches at Athens and about the preoccupations of (...) Aristotle and his pupils. (shrink) Download Export citation Bookmark 3 citations
Once More, The Client/ Logographos Relationship1.I. Worthington - 1993 - Classical Quarterly 43 (1):67-72.details Whilst Theophrastus implies that the logographos had a great deal of control over the oral version of a forensic speech and what went into it,2 the part played by the logographos and the client in the content and circulation of the oration after oral delivery is controversial, and has attracted a fair share of attention.3 Sir Kenneth Dover argued that joint or composite authorship of the speech could take place, and that it was the client who could publish the speech (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Xenophon, Critias and Theramenes.Stephen Usher - 1968 - Journal of Hellenic Studies 88:128-135.details Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Aristotle's Knowledge of Athenian oratory.J. C. Trevett - 1996 - Classical Quarterly 46 (2):371-379.details In the Rhetoric Aristotle frequently illustrates the points he is making with examples drawn both from oratory and from other literary genres. Although some of these citations have been used to date the work, they have never been systematically examined. It is the contention of this article that, when Aristotle gives examples from speeches, he quotes exclusively from epideictic works, and that this fact tells us much both about the circulation of written speeches at Athens and about the preoccupations of (...) Aristotle and his pupils. (shrink) Download Export citation Bookmark 3 citations
Writing, copying, and autograph manuscripts in ancient Rome.Myles Mcdonnell - 1996 - Classical Quarterly 46 (02):469-.details A familiar image from the Roman world is a Pompeian portrait of a man and woman sometimes identified as Terentius Neo and his wife. He has a papyrus roll under his chin, while she looks out with a writing tablet in one hand, a stylus held to her lips in the other. The message of the attributes presented would seem to be: ‘ We can and do read and write’. But how should the message be interpreted? To judge from the (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 3 citations
Writing, copying, and autograph manuscripts in ancient Rome.Myles Mcdonnell - 1996 - Classical Quarterly 46 (2):469-491.details A familiar image from the Roman world is a Pompeian portrait of a man and woman sometimes identified as Terentius Neo and his wife. He has a papyrus roll under his chin, while she looks out with a writing tablet in one hand, a stylus held to her lips in the other. The message of the attributes presented would seem to be: ‘ We can and do read and write’. But how should the message be interpreted? To judge from the (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations

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