Comic Invective in Ancient Greek and Roman Oratory

Weitere Verfasser: Papaioannou, Sophia , [HerausgeberIn] , [http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt]
Serafim, Andreas, , [HerausgeberIn] , [http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource (vii, 282 pages).
Schriftenreihe: Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes 121
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Parallelausgabe: ISSN: 9783110735666
ISSN: 9783110738964
Inhalte/Bestandteile: 1 Datensätze
Online Zugang: Available online
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Killing with a Smile: Comic Invective in Greek and Roman Oratory
  • Part I: Intertextual and Multi-genre Invective
  • Comedy and Insults in the Athenian Law-courts
  • Comic Invective and Public Speech in Fourth-Century Athens
  • Comic Invective in Attic Forensic Oratory: Private Speeches
  • Rhetorical Defence, Inter-poetic Agōn and the Reframing of Comic Invective in Plato’s Apology of Socrates
  • “You are Mad!” Allegations of Insanity in Greek Comedy and Rhetoric
  • Comic Invective in Cicero’s Speech Pro M. Caelio
  • How to Start a Show: Comic Invectives in the Prologues of Terence and Decimus Laberius
  • Part II: The Cultural Workings of Invective
  • Comic Somatisation and the Body of Evidence in Aeschines’ Against Timarchus
  • Comic Invective, Decorum and Ars in Cicero’s De Oratore
  • No Decorum in the Forum? Comic Invective in the Theatre of Justice
  • Part III: Invective in Ancient Socio-political Contexts
  • Political Rhetoric and Comic Invective in Fifth-Century Athens: The Trial of the Dogs in Aristophanes’ Wasps
  • Democracy, Poverty, Comic Heroism and Oratorical Strategy in Lysias 24
  • Notes on Editors and Contributors
  • General Index
  • Index Locorum