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Keeping to the Point in Athenian Forensic Oratory: Law, Character and Rhetoric

Keeping to the Point in Athenian Forensic Oratory: Law, Character and Rhetoric

Harris, Edward M.
Esu, Alberto

Hardcover

Series: New Approaches to Ancient Greek Institutional History

Literary CriticismAncient GreeceGeneral Law

ISBN10: 1399523872
ISBN13: 9781399523875
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Jan 31 2025
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
When a litigant initiated a lawsuit in Classical Athens, he submitted a written plaint to the relevant magistrate. This document contained his name, the name of the defendant, the legal procedure employed, and the specific violations of part of the law. If the magistrate accepted the plaint, the legal charges were read to the court before and after the litigants spoke, and the judges swore in their oath to vote only about the charges in the plaint, that is, whether the defendant had violated a specific law or not. In private suits, litigants took an oath to 'keep to the point', that is, discuss only the legal charges. In public cases litigants were under the same obligation. This volume examines several Athenian court speeches and show that litigants paid close attention to legal relevance in court. Consequently, the essays in this volume make the case for integrated approach to rhetoric and law emphasizing an institutional understanding of Athenian forensic oratory.

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