Law, Rhetoric and Comedy in Classical Athens
Essays in Honour of Douglas M. MacDowell
edited by D.L. Cairns and R.A. Knox
Hardback (Published)
(December 2004)
ISBN: 9780954384555
6.1 x 9.17 inches
Price: $85.00
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An international cast of distinguished scholars here offers seventeen new contributions on the detail and development of Athenian law; the life, work, and political background of the Attic orators; and the intersection of Attic Comedy with Athenian law, politics, and society. In their detailed and careful use of evidence and deep awareness of social and historical contexts, the essays aspire to standards set by their distinguished honorand, Professor D.M. MacDowell.
Acknowledgements Introduction D.L. Cairns and R.A. Knox D.M. MacDowell: List of Publications PART I: LAW 1. Aspects of oral law in archaic Greece - Ilias Arnaoutoglou 2. Writing Athenian law - Michael Gagarin 3. Law of procedure in Attic inscriptions - Gerhard Thur 4. Contracts in Athens - David C. Mirhady PART II: RHETORIC AND POLITICS 5. Textual arguments for the date of the In Alcibiadem in the Corpus of Andokides - Luisa Prandi 6. Antiphon the revolutionary - Michael J. Edwards 7. Revisiting the herms and the mysteries - S.C. Todd 8. Andocides' defence and MacDowell's solution -Edwin Carawan 9. Lysias for pleasure? - Stephen Usher 10. Antiphon's daughter - Christopher Carey 11. Isokrates for hire: Some preliminaries to a commentary on Isokrates 16-21 - David Whitehead 12. Stirring up dicastic anger - Lene Rubinstein PART III: COMEDY 13. Comedy and the unspeakable - Alan H. Sommerstein 14. Aristophanes and the Athenian assembly - P.J. Rhodes 15. The limits of allegory and allusion in Aristophanes - Sir Kenneth Dover 16. From sacrifice to feast: a ritual pattern in Aristophanic comedy - Pavlos Sfyroeras 17. Menander's Epitrepontes in the light of the new papyri - W.G. Arnott Index
- Edited by D.L. Cairns
- Edited by R. A. Knox
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