The Documents in the Attic Orators Laws and Decrees in the Public Speeches of the Demosthenic Corpus
The Documents in the Attic Orators Laws and Decrees in the Public Speeches of the Demosthenic Corpus
- ISBN 13:
9780199668908
- ISBN 10:
0199668906
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 08/24/2013
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
Examining the documents found in Demosthenes' On the Crown, Against Meidias, Against Aristocrates, Against Timocrates, and Apollodorus' Against Neaera, the core of the volume, which includes a chapter by Edward M. Harris, provides a guide for the reliability of the individual documents, and advances new interpretations of important Athenian laws, such as homicide regulations, legislative procedures, laws on theft, seduction, naturalization, and outlawry. Canevaro argues that some of the documents have been inserted into the speeches in an Athenian environment at the beginning of the third century BC and are therefore reliable, while many others are later forgeries. These forgeries are early products of the tradition of historical declamations and progymnasmata, and could be used as evidence of Hellenistic oratory and rhetorical education.