Table of Contents

Edwin Carawan: Introduction: The Speechwriter's Art and the Imagined Community
I. The Lost Art and the First Written Speeches
1: Marius Lavency: The Written Plea of the Logographer
2: Stephen Usher: Lysias and his Clients
3: Thomas Cole: Who Was Corax?
4: John R. Porter: Adultery by the Book: Lysias 1 (On the Murder of Eratosthenes) and Comic Diegesis
II. The Tools of Argument: Procedure and Proof
5: Hans Julius Wolff, with an epilogue by Gerhard Thur: Demosthenes as Advocate: The Functions and Methods of Legal Consultants in Classical Athens
6: Harald Meyer-Laurin: Law and Equity in the Attic Trial
7: S. C. Humphreys: Social Relations on Stage: Witnesses in Classical Athens
8: Michael Gagarin: The Nature of Proofs in Antiphon
9: Christopher Carey: `Artless Proofs' in Aristotle and the Orators
10: David Mirhady: Torture and Rhetoric in Athens
III. Casting the Jury
11: Josiah Ober: Ability and Education: The Power of Persuasion
12: Stephen Todd: `Lady Chatterley's Lover' and the Attic Orators: The Social Composition of the Athenian Jury
13: Lene Rubinstein: Arguments from Precedent in the Attic Orators
14: Harvey Yunis: Politics as Literature: Demosthenes and the Burden of the Athenian Past

About the Author

Edwin Carawan is Professor of Classics, Missouri State University.