The speeches
Antiphon; edited by Michael Gagarin
Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
ISBN: 0521380294
DDC: 885.01
LCC: PA3869
Edition: (hardback)
Summary:
This volume provides a commentary on the six surviving speeches of
the fifth-century BC Athenian orator Antiphon, all of which concern
homicide, together with a fragment of Antiphon's final speech at his
own trial for treason in 411 BC. The commentary discusses
grammatical, stylistic, textual, legal, rhetorical, historical and
other matters and focuses especially on Antiphon's argumentation and
forensic strategy: why he presents these arguments in this particular
way. The work includes a new, fairly conservative, Greek text which
restores some of the special qualities of Antiphon's style that
twentieth-century editors have edited out; and a substantial
introduction to the life and work of Antiphon (including the identity
of the sophist Antiphon and the authenticity of the three
Tetralogies), the nature of Athenian law and legal oratory (including
the rhetoric of law), and the style and textual tradition of
Antiphon. A bibliography and indices are included.
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