Killing with a Smile: Comic Invective in Greek and Roman Oratory

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgements VII
4. Killing with a Smile: Comic Invective in Greek and Roman Oratory 1
5. Part I: Intertextual and Multi-genre Invective
6. Comedy and Insults in the Athenian Law-courts 25
7. Comic Invective and Public Speech in Fourth-Century Athens 43
8. Comic Invective in Attic Forensic Oratory: Private Speeches 65
9. Rhetorical Defence, Inter-poetic Agōn and the Reframing of Comic Invective in Plato’s Apology of Socrates 81
10. “You are Mad!” Allegations of Insanity in Greek Comedy and Rhetoric 107
11. Comic Invective in Cicero’s Speech Pro M. Caelio 125
12. How to Start a Show: Comic Invectives in the Prologues of Terence and Decimus Laberius 147
13. Part II: The Cultural Workings of Invective
14. Comic Somatisation and the Body of Evidence in Aeschines’ Against Timarchus 171
15. Comic Invective, Decorum and Ars in Cicero’s De Oratore 191
16. No Decorum in the Forum? Comic Invective in the Theatre of Justice 211
17. Part III: Invective in Ancient Socio-political Contexts
18. Political Rhetoric and Comic Invective in Fifth-Century Athens: The Trial of the Dogs in Aristophanes’ Wasps 235
19. Democracy, Poverty, Comic Heroism and Oratorical Strategy in Lysias 24 257
20. Notes on Editors and Contributors 273
21. General Index 275
22. Index Locorum 279