This volume provides a commentary on the six speeches of the fifth-century BC Athenian orator Antiphon, all of which concern homicide. This is the first complete English commentary on Antiphon and the first in any language since 1838. The book opens with a substantial introduction to the life and work of Antiphon and the nature of Athenian law and legal oratory. A new Greek text follows. The commentary itself discusses grammatical, stylistic, legal, rhetorical and historical matters.
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"...it is useful to have this volume... The appearance of this commentry will no doubt stimulate new discussion of this important author." Alexander Tulin, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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Essential for the student of Greek oratory...,
This review is from: Antiphon: The Speeches (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) (Paperback)
Michael Gagarin deserves high praise for this volume on a very underappreciated Greek author. Until this book appeared, English readers were limited to the (good, but meager) annotations in the Loeb Classical Library's edition of the Minor Attic Orators. This volume contains the entire corpus of Antiphon...making it more useful, in this respect, than several volumes in this (outstanding) series containing only selected parts of larger works. No other text is needed for the average classicist not specializing in oratory than this for the study of Antiphon.
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Background. The speaker's father and his friend Philoneus were dining together when (we are told) Philoneus' pallake ("concubine" - see 1.14n.), whom he was about to discard, after serving dinner to the two men added a drug to their wine, killing Philoneus immediately and causing the father's death several days later. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mild hyperbaton, lawful homicide, unintentional homicide, potential optative, court speeches, editors emend, actual killer, genitive absolute, homicide law, forensic oratory, editors change, modern editors, most editors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Background. The speaker's father and his friend Philoneus were dining together when (we are told) Philoneus' pallake ("concubine" - see 1.14n.), whom he was about to discard, after serving dinner to the two men added a drug to their wine, killing Philoneus immediately and causing the father's death several days later. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mild hyperbaton, lawful homicide, unintentional homicide, potential optative, court speeches, editors emend, actual killer, genitive absolute, homicide law, forensic oratory, editors change, modern editors, most editors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Second Tetralogy, First Tetralogy, Asia Minor, Decleva Caizzi, Four Hundred, Skala Sikaminias New!
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- Logos and Ergon in Thucydides (Monographs in Classical Studies) by Adam Parry in Back Matter
- The Athenian Boule by P. J. Rhodes in Back Matter
- Attic Orators (Classical World) by Michael Edwards in Back Matter
- Magna Moralia (Spanish Edition) by Aristotle on page 1
- Against Meidias (Oration 21) (v. 21) by Demosthenes in Back Matter
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- Demosthenes: Statesman and Orator by Ian Worthington on page 179, and Back Matter
- The Litigious Athenian (Ancient Society and History) by Matthew R. Christ in Back Matter
- Political Dissent in Democratic Athens: Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule by Josiah Ober in Back Matter
- The Theatrical Cast of Athens: Interactions between Ancient Greek Drama and Society by Edith Hall in Back Matter
- The Rhetoric of Conspiracy in Ancient Athens by Joseph Roisman in Back Matter
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