...This chapter examines Thucydides' reception in the fourth century bc and the Hellenistic period. It focuses on the Greek historians of the period, but looks also at the orators, the poliorcetic writer Aineias Taktikos, the philosophers Plato and Aristotle, and the poets Kallimachos...

... of The Orators. Boas Franz Dickinson Emily Shakespeare William Whitman Walt Arnold Matthew Berryman John Bloom Paul Cavell Stanley Cohen Ted Ryan Kay Eliot T S Heidegger Martin Robinson E A Yeats W B Auden W H Montaigne Michel de Greenberg Herbert Mendelson Edward Stein Gertrude...

...This concluding chapter explains that for a hundred years and more, certain Hellenists have been intuiting nonverbal communication sporadically as they read their Archaic and Classical Greek texts. All the poets, historians, philosophers, and orators discussed in the previous chapters read...

...This chapter focuses on the notion of self-help that emerged in the late 1890s. During freedom celebrations, black orators advocated self-reliance so the race could become, among other things, a greater political force. Self-help, or the ideology of uplift, was considered by scholars to include...

...The Attic orators, whose works are an invaluable source on the social and political history of Classical Athens, often filled their speeches with charges of conspiracy involving almost every facet of Athenian life. There are allegations of plots against men's lives, property, careers...

...This chapter provides a translation, notes, and text on the fragments of Didymus's commentaries. These are attributed to Didymus by name in Harpocration's Lexeis of the Ten Orators. It shows that the bibliographical references in the lexicon may suggest a post-Augustan date, while...

... Aeschines allusion Perses persona Demosthenes 19 240–41 Kronos Ouranos Sky Heaven Zeus etymologia etymology Musaeus Aeschylus Aristophanes Aphrodite personification Titans Plato Plato’s Laws reception fourth century bce rhapsodic performance Hesiod and Homer orators sophists...

...Chapter 6 examines the role of law and justice in the speeches of Demosthenes and other Greek orators. The Demosthenic corpus consists of 42 judicial speeches in which issues of justice are central and legal cases are assessed for their conformity with the laws of Athens. After discussing how...

... ‘A Communist to Others’ reappeared in the influential New Country anthology. Then, as three of our contributors mention, Auden cut and rewrote the poem before collecting it in look, Stranger! (1936).d The Twentieth Century Weltanschauung The Orators Stranger The English...

... assertion is possible: unlike other genres, oratory evolved under the stimulus of two agencies, that of the preceptor and that of the practitioner. From the start there were teachers instructing would-be orators in what to say, how and in what order to say it. By the time of Antiphon, the first Greek orator...

...This content is only available as a PDF. The Orators out of L by P Outline Science and Poetry Practical Criticism ‘Writing, or the Pattern Between People’ was composed during the first three months of 1932 at the request of Naomi Mitchison. She included it in her children’s guide to the modern...

...Figure 5.1. Citations per orator Figure 5.2. Citations per book This chapter analyses the quotations from the orators of the Republican period in Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria. The method of quotation is extremely varied and the author shows a good first-hand knowledge...

... speaker and statesman who is the theme of De Oratore. Brutus L Licinius Crassus Cos 95 De Oratore C Visellius Aculeo M Antonius Cos 99 Coelius Antipater historian C Papirius Carbo Cos 120 Licinia Vestal Orator M Marius Gratidianus Ser Orata P Licinius Crassus Dives Mucianus Cos...

... Caesar Cos 59 48 etc Philodemus Epicurean poet Cn Pompeius Magnus Cos 70 55 52 Tri 419 M Antonius Cos 44 IIIvir Phil 2 senatorial not delivered orators Cicero De Oratore Rabbie speaker Nemo [sc. erat] qui breviter arguteque inluso adversario laxaret iudicum animos, atque a severitate paulisper...

... Ad Atticum Ad Quintum fratrem T Annius Milo P Sestius Cos 23 39 34 Cato Minor 41 M Favonius P Licinius Crassus Cos 70 55 C Trebonius Cos suff 45 Flacc criminal law 15–17 natura physis 1 cf ingenium an orator’s natural talent Cicero De Oratore De Provinciis Consularibus orators speeches...

...This chapter begins with a discussion of the extent to which Roman orators were expected to speak from memory. From the beginning of De Oratore Cicero stresses the urgent need for memory ‘since unless it is set to guard the ideas and language we have devised, all the orator's...

... Cicero survives, and as a result the debate on oratory, and political practice more widely, is liable to be distorted by the distinctive features of Cicero’s oratorical practice. With careful attention to a wide range of ancient evidence, this book shines a light on orators other than Cicero...

...Educated women, writers, poets, and orators, became a feature of the Italian cultural landscape in the 15th century, a phenomenon which was recognized Europe-wide as an aspect of the Italian Renaissance. This chapter examines the extreme variability of women's access to education between one state...

...Orators and jurists from Rome during the last two centuries of the Republic created the earliest recognizable legal profession. Laws and legal systems, of course, existed long before that in the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean basin. One medieval jurist asserted that the first trial...