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Author:

Bers, Victor.

Title:

Genos dikanikon : amateur and professional speech in the courtrooms of classical Athens / Victor Bers.

Publisher:

Distributed by Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

ix, 159 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Forensic orations--Athens--Athens--History.
Forensic oratory--History.
Rhetoric, Ancient.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

The challenge of court speech -- Amateur litigants, amateur speakers -- Natural and artificial speech from Homer to Hyperides : a brief sketch -- Terrors of the courtroom -- Performance as evidence -- Appeals to pity and displays of anger -- Tactics, amateur and professional.

Series:

Hellenic studies ; 33

ISBN:

0674032039 (alk. paper)
9780674032033 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)319063968

LCCN:

2009016266

Locations:

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)