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Greek myth and religion. Collected papers II
This volume contains the collected papers of Albert Henrichs on numerous subjects in ancient Greek myth and religion. What was ancient Greek religion really like? What is the reality of belief and action that lies behind the unwieldy sources, which stem from vast areas and epochs of the ancient world? What is the meaning, intended and otherwise, of religious action and speech in ancient Greece? Who were the Greek gods, how were they worshipped, and how were they viewed by those who worshipped them? One of the leading students of ancient Greek religion over the past five decades, Albert Henrichs, the Eliot Professor of Greek Literature at Harvard University, combines wide and deep learning, a pragmatic, incisive approach to the sources, and an apt use of comparative perspectives. Henrichs breaks new ground in discussing sacrifice, libation, cultic identity, religious action and speech, epiphany, and the personalities of the gods. Special attention is devoted to ancient Greek sources on the ancient Persian prophet Mani, founder of Manichaeism. As a group, Albert Henrichs? papers on Greek religion offer a basic education on Greek myth and religion and constitute a blueprint for serious study of the subject.
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Demosthenes, Speeches 18 and 19
This is the ninth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. These translations are especially designed for the needs and interests of today's undergraduates, Greekless scholars in other disciplines, and the general public.
Classical oratory is an invaluable resource for the study of ancient Greek life and culture. The speeches offer evidence on Greek moral views, social and economic conditions, political and social ideology, law and legal procedure, and other aspects of Athenian culture that have recently been attracting particular interest: women and family life, slavery, and religion, to name just a few.
Demosthenes is regarded as the greatest orator of classical antiquity. The two speeches translated here grew out of his longtime rivalry with the orator Aeschines. In Speech 19 (On the Dishonest Embassy) delivered in 343 BC, Demosthenes attacks Aeschines for corruption centered around an ultimately disastrous embassy to Philip of Macedon that both men took part in. This speech made Demosthenes the leading politician in Athens for a time. Speech 18 (On the Crown orDe Corona), delivered in 330 BC, is Demosthenes' most famous and influential oration. It resulted not only in Demosthenes receiving one of Athens' highest political honors but also in the defeat and disgrace of Aeschines, who retired from public life and left Athens forever.
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Law, Politics, and the Graphe Paranomon in Fourth-Century Athens
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Political Uses of Rhetoric in Democratic Athens
This chapter describes the three stages in the evolution of rhetoric that took place in classical Athens within roughly eighty years, approximately 430‐350. First, rhetoric arose as a distinct self‐conscious discipline comprising theory and practice, teachers and students, model texts and schools. Second, rhetoric developed into the chief tool of mass democratic decision‐making in Athens' political and judicial institutions. Third, in consequence of the concomitant rise of literary texts aimed at the reading public, rhetoric developed further into the chief mode of public literary expression, which led to the creation of new concepts of the political and the personal. Athenian literary rhetoric—often classified as epideictic but so pliable as to be used for all kinds of general subject matter—then evolved into the dominant mode of public communication throughout the rest of antiquity.
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