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The rhetoric of the past in Demosthenes and Aeschines : oratory, history, and politics in classical Athens /

Offering an incisive analysis of all surviving public speeches of contemporaries and bitter rivals Demosthenes and Aeschines, this volume examines how democratic politicians in classical Athens created versions of the city's past to persuade mass decision-making audiences, cement their own auth...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Westwood, Guy, 1986- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford classical monographs.
Subjects:
Demosthenes > Criticism and interpretation.
Aeschines > Criticism and interpretation.
Aeschines
Demosthenes
Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek > History and criticism.
Rhetoric, Ancient > History and criticism.
Oratory, Ancient > History and criticism.
Political oratory > Greece > History and criticism.
Athens (Greece) > Politics and government > Early works to 1800.
Discours grecs > Histoire et critique.
Rhétorique ancienne > Histoire et critique.
Éloquence antique > Histoire et critique.
Éloquence politique > Grèce > Histoire et critique.
Ancient.
HISTORY.
Speeches.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS.
LITERARY CRITICISM.
Ancient & Classical.
History & Surveys.
PHILOSOPHY.
Oratory, Ancient
Political oratory
Politics and government
Rhetoric, Ancient
Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek
Greece
Greece > Athens
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Early works
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