The Orator Demades : Classical Greece Reimagined Through Rhetoric

by: Dmitriev, S.

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The Orator Demades
Classical Greece Reimagined Through Rhetoric
Sviatoslav Dmitriev
The first ever published monograph in English about Demades
Explores Demades as a later rhetorical construct that reflected the norms and expectations of later centuries
Analyzes the limitations of ancient historical accounts

Description
This is the first monograph in English about Demades, an influential Athenian politician from the fourth century B.C. An orator whose fame outlived him for hundreds of years, he was an acquaintance and collaborator of many political and military leaders of classical Greece, including the Macedonian king Philip II, his son and successor Alexander III (the Great), and the orator Demosthenes.

An overwhelming portion of the available evidence on Demades dates to at least three centuries after his death and, often, much later. Contextualizing the sources within their historical and cultural framework, The Orator Demades delineates how later rhetorical practices and social norms transformed his image to better reflect the educational needs and political realities of the Roman imperial and Byzantine periods.

The evolving image of Demades illustrates the role that rhetoric, as the basis of education and edification under the Roman and Byzantine Empires, played in creating an alternate, inauthentic vision of the classical past that continues to dominate modern scholarship and popular culture. As a result, the book raises a genera

Table of Contents
Preface
INTRODUCTION: Approximating the historical Demades
PART ONE: Demades in the world of people
Chapter 1. Making sense of the evidence
Chapter 2. Texts and contexts
Chapter 3. The rhetorical persona of Demades
PART TWO: Demades in the world of images
Chapter 4. Paideia: education with edification
Chapter 5. The art of being earnest
Chapter 6. Demades the politician
PART THREE: Demades's rhetorical history
Chapter 7. History, rhetoric, and legends
Chapter 8. Athenian political rhetoric
Chapter 9. Demades's last years and words
EPILOGUE: Constructing the rhetorical Demades
APPENDIX. Interpreting ps.-Demades's On the Twelve Years
Abbreviations and Select Bibliography
Index of sources
Index of personal names, technical terms, and important words

The Orator Demades : Classical Greece Reimagined Through Rhetoric

by: Dmitriev, S.

• ISBN-13: 9780197517826 / 978-0-19-751782-6
• ISBN-03: 019751782X / 0-19-751782-X
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2021

Price: 80,33 EURO

1 copy in stock