Comic Invective in Ancient Greek and Roman Oratory /

Comic Invective in Ancient Greek and Roman Oratory / / ed. by Sophia Papaioannou, Andreas Serafim.

This volume acknowledges the centrality of comic invective in a range of oratorical institutions (especially forensic and symbouleutic), and aspires to enhance the knowledge and understanding of how this technique is used in such con-texts of both Greek and Roman oratory. Despite the important schol...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Apostolakis, Kostas,
Buis, Emiliano J.,
Degener, Hanna Maria,
Donelan, Jasper,
Horneff, Jan Lukas,
Hubbard, Thomas K.,
Kazantzidis, George,
Kish, Nathan,
Konstantakos, Ioannis,
Major, Wilfred E.,
Papaioannou, Sophia,
Pausch, Dennis,
Serafim, Andreas,
HerausgeberIn:
Papaioannou, Sophia,
Serafim, Andreas,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 121
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 282 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Killing with a Smile: Comic Invective in Greek and Roman Oratory
  • Part I: Intertextual and Multi-genre Invective
  • Comedy and Insults in the Athenian Law-courts
  • Comic Invective and Public Speech in Fourth-Century Athens
  • Comic Invective in Attic Forensic Oratory: Private Speeches
  • Rhetorical Defence, Inter-poetic Agōn and the Reframing of Comic Invective in Plato’s Apology of Socrates
  • “You are Mad!” Allegations of Insanity in Greek Comedy and Rhetoric
  • Comic Invective in Cicero’s Speech Pro M. Caelio
  • How to Start a Show: Comic Invectives in the Prologues of Terence and Decimus Laberius
  • Part II: The Cultural Workings of Invective
  • Comic Somatisation and the Body of Evidence in Aeschines’ Against Timarchus
  • Comic Invective, Decorum and Ars in Cicero’s De Oratore
  • No Decorum in the Forum? Comic Invective in the Theatre of Justice
  • Part III: Invective in Ancient Socio-political Contexts
  • Political Rhetoric and Comic Invective in Fifth-Century Athens: The Trial of the Dogs in Aristophanes’ Wasps
  • Democracy, Poverty, Comic Heroism and Oratorical Strategy in Lysias 24
  • Notes on Editors and Contributors
  • General Index
  • Index Locorum

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