Genos dikanikon : amateur and professional speech in the courtrooms of classical Athens

1. Verfasser: Bers, Victor.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Washington, D.C. : Cambridge, Mass. : Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University ; Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2009.
Umfang/Format: ix, 159 p. ; 23 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Hellenic studies ; 33.
Schlagworte:
Inhaltsangabe:
  • The challenge of court speech
  • Amateur litigants, amateur speakers
  • Natural and artificial speech from Homer to Hyperides : a brief sketch
  • Terrors of the courtroom
  • Performance as evidence
  • Appeals to pity and displays of anger
  • Tactics, amateur and professional.