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Fiona Rossette-Crake

Fiona Rossette-Crake

David S. Moon

Alberto Esu

This chapter analyzes the legal arguments in Demosthenes' Against Androtion (Dem. 22), a speech delivered during a graphē paranomōn against Androtion's decree honoring the outgoing Council. The prosecutors accused Androtion of breaking three laws: introducing a motion without a prior probouleuma from the Council, requesting an award for the Council without fulfilling the prerequisite of shipbuilding, and speaking in the Assembly despite being atimos for having engaged in prostitution and being a public debtor. The chapter revisits these legal charges, demonstrating that both Demosthenes and Androtion remained focused on the legal issues offering sophisticated legal interpretations. It highlights the central role of timē (honor) and the associated performative obligations in Demosthenes' interpretation of laws governing honorific decrees for officials. Furthermore, it shows that the character evidence in the latter part of the speech is directly tied to the legal accusations in the first part. Demosthenes portrays Androtion as driven by hybris—an excessive desire for honor—arguing that this hybristic disposition led Androtion to repeatedly violate the law while in public office.

Giacinto Falco

This chapter deals with the legal relevance of the arguments put forward by Apollodoros, the son of Pasion, in his speech against Timotheos, the general. The latter owed Apollodoros some money that Pasion, while still alive, had lent him. Frequent reference is made to values of Greek morality throughout the speech. At first sight, one might be tempted to believe that such values were unrelated to law and consequently that litigants in Athenian lawcourts were allowed to base their speeches on extra-legal arguments. This chapter aims to demonstrate that, by virtue of the interdependence between morality and law, even the arguments relying on the moral and cultural Athenian background cannot be considered as extra-legal. After clarifying that Apollodoros sued Timotheos for damages and attempting to reconstruct the text of the plaint, the chapter proceeds to scrutinise the most controversial points of the speech to show that values such as reciprocity, trust or reverence towards the gods were interwoven with, and reflected by, Athenian laws. As a result, any argument put forward by the speaker was to be considered legally relevant if it aimed to prove that the defendant had violated the specific law quoted in the plaint and his behaviour conflicted with the ēthos of the city and its laws.

Jakub Filonik

Konstantinos Kapparis, Ilias Arnaoutoglou, Dimos Spatharas

Vivian Strotmann

Paromita Sanyal, Vijayendra Rao, Umang Prabhakar

James Egan

Abstract Milton's regicide tracts of 1649, The Tenure, Observations, and Eikonoklastes, are recombinations of two of his most familiar compositional modes of the 1640s, the oration and the animadversion, tactics derived ultimately from classical rhetorical theory and Renaissance assimilations of it. Each tract also displays a poeticized rhetoric which represents Milton's signature adaptation of the close relationship between rhetoric and poetic found in classical and Renaissance rhetorical texts. Evidence for these claims can be found in the structures, styles, and aesthetic manifestations of all three pamphlets, particularly the classical low and middle styles, the formulaic mechanism of quotation and reply, and the prose genre of the Character.

Emanuele Narducci

Ray E. Keesey

Peter Mack

Elaine Fantham

John Cotton, Robert Tyas