The Reception of Rhetoric in Greek Drama of the Fifth Century BCE

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Part I: Rhetoric in Attic Drama
5. Hecuba’s Rhetoric 3
6. The Rhetoric of Erôs in Menander’s Samia 33
7. Competitive Vocal Performance in Aristophanes’ Knights 71
8. Fragments of Euripidean Rhetoric 83
9. Praise, Past and Ponytails 101
10. Greek Tragedy and Attic Oratory 123
11. ‘Do you see this, natives of this land?’ 153
12. Justifying Murder and Rejecting Revenge 181
13. Part II: Politics, Rhetoric and Poetry
14. Drama and Democracy 233
15. From the Ancient Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry: Archaic Moral Values and Political Behaviour in Aristophanes’ Frogs 249
16. Aspects of Epinician Rhetoric and the Democratic polis 269
17. Performing the Past in Lycurgus’ Speech Against Leocrates 281
18. Part III: Drama in Attic Oratory
19. Rhetoric, Poetry and the agelaioi sophistai 305
20. The Orators and Greek Drama 329
21. Dramatic Elements as Rhetorical Means in Hyperides’ Timandrus 339
22. Thespians in the Law-Court 347
23. Part IV: Society, Law and Drama
24. The Reception of Rhetoric in Greek Drama of the Fifth Century BCE 365
25. Families and Family Relationships in the Speeches of Isaios and in Middle and New Comedy 375
26. Aeschylus’ Eumenides 389
27. List of Contributors 421
28. General Index 425
29. Index Locorum 435
30. Index of Greek Words 453