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This paper applies cognitive linguistic frame analysis to three long speeches from fourth-century Athens. It examines how Aeschines constructs and successfully deploys the socio-political concept or frame of the good citizen against Timarchus in 346/5 B.C. and then in a more elaborate form against Demosthenes in 330 B.C. and how Demosthenes wins the case by redefining the frame through metaphor-based reframing of the good, steadfast citizen. This framing analysis reveals Aeschines' overall rhetorical strategy and facilitates rhetorical assessment of the two crown speeches through a comprehensive, socio-politically integrated perspective.

This paper applies cognitive linguistic frame analysis to three long speeches from fourth-century Athens. It examines how Aeschines constructs and successfully deploys the socio-political concept or frame of the good citizen against Timarchus in 346/5 B.C. and then in a more elaborate form against Demosthenes in 330 B.C. and how Demosthenes wins the case by redefining the frame through metaphor-based reframing of the good, steadfast citizen. This framing analysis reveals Aeschines' overall rhetorical strategy and facilitates rhetorical assessment of the two crown speeches through a comprehensive, socio-politically integrated perspective. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

The political unaccountability of ordinary citizens in classical Athens was originally raised as a challenge by ancient critics of democracy. In tension with that criticism, the authors argue that attention to the above challenge is consistent with a defence of Athenian democratic politics. In fact, ordinary citizens' function in the Assembly and courts implicitly included the burden of justifying their own political decisions to an imagined authority, as if they could be brought to account. Byeans of practices that encouraged this self-scrutiny, Athenians marked the challenge of citizens' political unaccountability as an unavoidable but manageable aspect of their democracy.

Cook describes the contents and characteristics of Vaticanus graecus and analyzes three episodes of the Philip II epitome. He concludes that the writer of the manuscript presents a new text on Philip that is quite sophisticated in its praise and condemnation of the conquering king, thus allowing readers to see how a Byzantine scholar compiled excerpts from earlier texts to form his unique epitome of Philip.

Cook argues that the attribution to Theophrastos of a passage in Plutarch's \"Demosthenes\" is the mistake of a meddlesome scribe in one manuscript and that the reading \"Theopompos\" of most manuscripts should be accepted. This means that what little survives of Theopompos' opinion of the orator Demosthenes remains complex and not simply negative, as misreadings have often held.

Inscribed Athenian Laws and Decrees in the Age of Demosthenes: Historical Essays. By STEPHEN D. Lambert. Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy. Leiden, NL and Boston, MA: Brill, 2018. Pp. ix + 333. Hardback, $144.00. ISBN: 978-90-0435248-3.