Witnesses and Evidence in Ancient Greek Literature /

Witnesses and Evidence in Ancient Greek Literature / / ed. by Andreas Markantonatos, Vasileios Liotsakis, Andreas Serafim.

The fact that aspects of witnesses and evidence put them in the centre of the institutional and cultural (e.g. religious, literary) construction of ancient societies indicates that it is important to keep offering nuanced approaches to the topic of this volume. To advance knowledge of the processes...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Harris, Edward M.,
Hatzilambrou, Rosalia,
Kurihara, Asako,
Liotsakis, Vasileios,
Markantonatos, Andreas,
Massimo Pinto, Pasquale,
Mirhady, David,
Nikolaidou, Smaro,
Perysinakis, Ioannis N.,
Sato, Noboru,
Serafim, Andreas,
Sotiriou, Margarita,
Sullivan, Robert,
Westwood, Guy,
HerausgeberIn:
Liotsakis, Vasileios,
Markantonatos, Andreas,
Serafim, Andreas,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 123
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 306 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Witness and Evidence in Legal, Oratorical and Other Literary Contexts in Antiquity
  • Part I: Written and Oral Evidence
  • The Role of Written Documents in Athenian Trials
  • Rumour and Hearsay Evidence in the Athenian Law-courts
  • Part II: The Rhetoric of Information-Gathering and Decision- Making
  • Audience Memory as Evidence in the Trial on the Crown
  • Additional Information in Witness Testimonies in Classical Athens
  • Self-Quotations as Witnesses and Evidence: The Case of Isocrates’ Antidosis
  • Antiphon’s Witnesses: Extending the Earliest Greek Theories of Argumentation
  • Part III: Scripting Witnesses and Evidence: Prose and Verse Texts
  • The Questions in (Answering the Question about the Historicity of) Plato’s Apology of Socrates
  • Plato’s Apology of Socrates: The Rhetoric of Socrates’ Defence and the Foundation of the Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry
  • Witnesses and Evidence in Thucydides: The Institutional and Rhetorical Context of the Digression on the Tyrannicides
  • The Torture of Prometheus
  • Poet, Patron, Message: Witness-Roles and the Game of Truth in Epinician Eidography
  • Part IV: The Cultural Workings of Witnesses and Evidence
  • Information and Decision in Sophocles’ Trachiniae and Euripides’ Medea and Ino
  • Scandals as Evidence in Attic Forensic Oratory: The Case of Aeschines’ Against Timarchus
  • Notes on Editors and Contributors
  • General Index
  • Index Locorum

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