The Documents in the Attic Orators : Laws and Decrees in the Public Speeches of the Demosthenic Corpus

by: Canevaro, M.

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First comprehensive study of the documents in a century
Provides the text and apparatus criticus for each document
Makes use of stichometric analysis by using the evidence of medieval manuscripts to calculate which documents are later insertions
Offers a full discussion of important laws and institutions
Sets the creation of the forgeries in the Hellenistic milieu of rhetorical education and oratory

Description
In this volume, Mirko Canevaro studies the 'state' documents (laws and decrees) preserved in the public speeches of the Demosthenic corpus. These documents purport to be Athenian statutes and, if authentic, provide invaluable information about Athenian history, law, and institutions. Offering a comprehensive account of the presence of the documents in the corpora of the orators and in the manuscript tradition, this volume summarizes previous scholarship and delineates a new methodology for analyzing the documents.

Examining the documents found in Demosthenes' On the Crown, Against Meidias, Against Aristocrates, Against Timocrates, and Apollodorus' Against Neaera, the core of the volume, which includes a chapter by Edward M. Harris, provides a guide for the reliability of the individual documents, and advances new interpretations of important Athenian laws, such as homicide regulations, legislative procedures, laws on theft, seduction, naturalization, and outlawry. Canevaro argues that some of the documents have been inserted into the speeches in an Athenian environment at the beginning of the third century BC and are therefore reliable, while many others are later forgeries. These forgeries are early products of the tradition of historical declamations and progymnasmata, and could be used as evidence of Hellenistic oratory and rhetorical education.

Table of Contents
Preface and Ackowledgements
List of Tables
Abbreviations
1: Introduction
2: The Against Aristocrates (Dem. 23)
3: The Against Timocrates (Dem. 24)
4: The Against Neaera ([Dem.] 59)
5: The Against Meidias (Dem. 21), by E. M. Harris
6: The speech On the Crown (Dem. 18)
7: Conclusions: the origin of the documents
Bibliography
General Index
Index locorum

The Documents in the Attic Orators : Laws and Decrees in the Public Speeches of the Demosthenic Corpus

by: Canevaro, M.

• ISBN-13: 9780199668908 / 978-0-19-966890-8
• ISBN-03: 0199668906 / 0-19-966890-6
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013

Price: 159,00 EURO

1 copy in stock