The Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory – PDF

The Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory – PDF

The Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory (PDF) delves deep into the fascinating and often overlooked topic of Athenian oratory identity. It is a must-read for those who have a keen interest in the speeches themselves, the identity of ancient Greece, oratory, and rhetoric. The book focuses on the existing speeches from the Athenian Assembly, law, and Council in the fifth-fourth centuries BCE, and the essays explore how speakers skillfully constructed or deconstructed identities for themselves and their opponents with the sole purpose of persuading or manipulating the audience.

The book examines how speakers were able to portray the Athenian people either as a unified demos or as a collection of sub-groups, manipulating their differences or exploiting similarities between Athenians and other Greeks or between Greeks and ‘barbarians’ for their benefit. The book sheds light on how names and naming strategies were crucial tools used in constructing or deconstructing individuals’ identities. On the other hand, Athenians’ civic identity could be established on grounds of ethnicity, socio-economic status, religion, and honor(s).

Within the forensic setting, the identities of participants in Athenian trials were subject to unique and transient modifications based on the physical location and procedural conventions. The book is insightful, offering a fresh perspective on the understudied aspect of Athenian oratory.

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ISBN: 978-0367228200, 978-1000764086, 978-0429277023