This collection of essays offers the first systematic approach to ancient forensic storytelling. Stories are a medium of signification, an indispensable tool in our cognitive toolkit. Understanding narratives as an integral part of forensic speakers argumentation, a substantial number of contributions in this volume emphasize the ways in which individual orators manipulate their stories by way of substantiating their argumentation: readers will find in this volume discussion of storytelling in Isaeus, Lysias, Demosthenes, and Apollodorus. A number of papers address broader questions: the relationship between stories and the law, the use of stories as a means of involving jurors in speakers conceptualization of individual cases, or the use of stories as a medium of emotional manipulation. The volume thus raises questions about forensic storytelling on the basis of modern theoretical work: narratology, legal theory, and the theory of emotions are used as a basis for a better and more thorough understanding of forensic storytelling. As a result, contributors depart from a strictly legalistic approach to the speeches and thereby favour readings which highlight the literary qualities of forensic oratory.
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"[ This] volume provides a great starting point for Athenian forensic narrative studies ...The book contributes substantially to Athenian forensic narrative studies and offers a wide range of exciting approaches that should inspire more scholars to explore this topic." - Sidney Kochman, Indiana University, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2020
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| Introduction |
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1 Storytelling in Athenian law |
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2 Storytelling about laws and money: Solon on stage (Demosthenes 24.212--214) |
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3 The devil's in the detail: Including `irrelevant' details in homicide narratives |
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4 Social norms and the legal framework of forensic narratives in disputed inheritance claims |
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55 | (16) |
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5 Deceptive narratives in the speeches of Isaeus |
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71 | (10) |
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6 The story about the jury |
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7 Inciting thorubos and narrative strategies in attic forensic speeches |
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8 Political ideology and character portrayal in Apollodorus' forensic narratives: |DEM.| 50 Against Polycles |
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119 | (16) |
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9 Reconstructing the past: Forensic storytelling about the Athenian constitution in Lysias 12 and 13 |
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135 | (22) |
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10 As if you were there: Enargeia and spatiality in Lysias 1 |
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157 | (14) |
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11 Temporal irony in Athenian forensic narrative: Lysias 1 On The Murder of Eratosthenes |
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171 | (15) |
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12 Narrative and emotions in Pseudo-Demosthenes 47, Against Euergus and Mnesiboulus |
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186 | (25) |
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13 Truth and deception in Athenian forensic narratives: An assessment of Demosthenes 54 and Lysias 3 |
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211 | (19) |
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14 Greek teachings about forensic narrative |
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| Index |
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| Index Auctorum Antiquorum et Locorum |
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Mike Edwards is Honorary Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, after being Professor of Classics in the Universities of London, Wales and Roehampton, all in the UK. He was Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, UK, and President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric. He has published extensively on the Attic orators and is currently preparing an Oxford Classical Text of Isaeus.
Dimos Spatharas is an Associate Professor at the University of Crete, Greece. He is the author of a forthcoming book, Emotions, Persuasion, and Public Discourse in Classical Athens, and of several articles on the Sophists, Greek oratory and Athenian law, and ancient emotions. He recently co-edited a volume entitled The Ancient Emotion of Disgust (2016). He also co-edits the book series Trends in Classics-Ancient Emotions.
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