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Title Speeches from Athenian law / edited by Michael Gagarin.

Publication Info. Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, [2011]
©2011

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (x, 396 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Oratory of classical Greece ; v. 16
Oratory of classical Greece ; v. 16.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-390) and index.
Contents Homicide and assault -- Status and citizenship -- Family and property -- Commerce and the economy.
Summary This is the sixteenth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. These translations are especially designed for the needs and interests of today's undergraduates, Greekless scholars in other disciplines, and the general public. Classical oratory is an invaluable resource for the study of ancient Greek life and culture. The speeches offer evidence on Greek moral views, social and economic conditions, political and social ideology, law and legal procedure, and other aspects of Athenian culture that have recently been attracting particular interest: women and family life, slavery, and religion, to name just a few. This volume assembles twenty-two speeches previously published in the Oratory series. The speeches are taken from a wide range of different kinds of cases-homicide, assault, commercial law, civic status, sexual offenses, and others-and include many of the best-known speeches in these areas. They are Antiphon, Speeches 1, 2, 5, and 6; Lysias 1, 3, 23, 24, and 32; Isocrates 17, 20; Isaeus 1, 7, 8; Hyperides 3; Demosthenes 27, 35, 54, 55, 57, and 59; and Aeschines 1. The volume is intended primarily for use in teaching courses in Greek law or related areas such as Greek history. It also provides the introductions and notes that originally accompanied the individual speeches, revised slightly to shift the focus onto law.
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Subject Forensic orations -- Greece -- Athens.
Forensic orations.
Greece -- Athens.
Trials -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- Sources.
Trials.
Genre/Form Sources.
Subject LAW -- Customary.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Comparative.
History.
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Gagarin, Michael, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Speeches from Athenian law. 1st ed. Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, ©2011 9780292723627 (DLC) 2010026801 (OCoLC)646716026
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