In a society where public speech was integral to the decision-making process, and where all affairs pertaining to the community were the subject of democratic d

The book offers a critical investigation of a wide range of features of religious discourse in the transmitted forensic, symbouleutic and epideictic orations of

Speech in Speech explores the techniques by which Classical Greek texts written primarily for public performance weave in direct quotations (oratio recta) of "o

This study identifies specific features in the legal procedure and social perception of homicide in Athens in the time of the orators and examines how these fea

This 1999 book discusses the ways performance is central to the practice and ideology of Athenian democracy.