Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-179) and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction. The Athenian conspiracy and its vocabulary ; Positive plotting -- 1. Plotting homicide -- 2. Plotting and other people's possessions. Plotting and contested inheritances: Isaeus ; Plotting and Demosthenes' inheritance ; Collusions to appropriate contested inheritances ; Plotting, desire, and damage ; Plotting borrowers and lenders -- 3. Legal plots and traps. Plots to obstruct litigation: Demosthenes and the challenge of Antidosis ; The Choregus's homicide trial (Ant. 6) ; Framing in crime: Andocides ; Framing in homicide ; Legal traps: Stephanus and Epaenetus ; Plots and entrapments: Apollodorus and Nicostratus -- 4. Political conspiracies: plots against the city and its regime. Plotting in Aristophanes and Thucydides ; The legacy of Oligarchic conspiracies: Andocides and Hetaireiai ; The legacy of Oligarchic conspiracies: Lysias and the Thirty ; Plotting politicians and public officials -- 5. Plotting legislation and political measures. Demosthenes' Against Aristocrates (Dem. 23) ; Demosthenes' Against Timocrates (Dem. 24) ; Plotting motions and honors -- 6. Foreign and domestic plotters -- 7. International conspiracies. Plotting war: Philip and the Fourth Sacred War ; Plotting in international trade -- Conclusion: Conspiracy theories, ancient and modern -- Appendix A. Demosthenes 32. Against Zenothemis -- Appendix B. The date and background of Aristocrates' decree.
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