Home > References & Encyclopedias > Interdisciplinary studies > Semiotics / semiology > The Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory
35%
The Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory

The Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory


  • Gray Star
  • Gray Star
  • Gray Star
  • Gray Star
  • Gray Star



Available


About the Book

Focusing on extant speeches from the Athenian Assembly, law, and Council in the fifth-fourth centuries BCE, these essays explore how speakers constructed or deconstructed identities for themselves and their opponents as part of a rhetorical strategy designed to persuade or manipulate the audience.

According to the needs of the occasion, speakers could identify the Athenian people either as a unified demos or as a collection of sub-groups, and they could exploit either differences or similarities between Athenians and other Greeks, and between Greeks and 'barbarians'. Names and naming strategies were an essential tool in the (de)construction of individuals' identities, while the Athenians' civic identity could be constructed in terms of honour(s), ethnicity, socio-economic status, or religion. Within the forensic setting, the physical location and procedural conventions of an Athenian trial could shape the identities of its participants in a unique if transient way.

The Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory is an insightful look at this understudied aspect of Athenian oratory and will be of interest to anyone working on the speeches themselves, identity in ancient Greece, or ancient oratory and rhetoric more broadly.


About the Author:

Jakub Filonik is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.

Brenda Griffith-Williams is Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London, UK.

Janek Kucharski is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.


Best Sellers



Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780367228200
  • Publisher: Taylor and Francis
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 236 mm
  • No of Pages: 230
  • Series Title: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
  • Weight: 476 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0367228203
  • Publisher Date: 28 Nov 2019
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Width: 155 mm


Similar Products


Write A Review
Write your own book review for The Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory
  • Gray Star
  • Gray Star
  • Gray Star
  • Gray Star
  • Gray Star


 

 

Top Reviews
Be the first to write a review on this book The Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory

New Arrivals



Inspired by your browsing history