Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgements vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Contributors xi
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I Keeping to the Point in Major Public Procedures
8. 1 The Rhetoric of the Graphe Paranomon in the Trial on the Crown 27
9. 2 Law, Office and Honour: Legal Relevance and Forensic Arguments in Demosthenes’ Against Androtion 54
10. 3 Gossip, Morals and Poetry: Legal Relevance in Aeschines’ Against Timarchus 80
11. 4 How Does Lycurgus Keep to His Point? Legal and Rhetorical Relevance in Against Leocrates 101
12. 5 Institutions, Character and Relevance: Keeping to the Point in Dokimasiai 120
13. Part II Keeping to the Point on Hybris, Violence and Disenfranchisement
14. 6 The Legal Charge in Demosthenes’ Against Meidias 149
15. 7 Did Ariston Keep to the Point? Dike Aikeias and Graphe Hybreos' in Demosthenes’ Against Conon 171
16. 8 Trial and Error: Impiety and Legal Relevance in Andocides’ On the Mysteries 184
17. Part III Keeping to the Point on Inheritance and Damages
18. 9 Character Evidence in Isaeus’ Speeches from Inheritance Disputes 209
19. 10 Against Timotheus: Keeping to the Point in a Suit for Damage 232
20. Conclusion: Some Rules of Thumb in the Study of Athenian Forensic Oratory 252
21. Bibliography 259
22. General Index 281
23. Index Locorum 285