Genos dikanikon : amateur and professional speech in the courtrooms of classical Athens

Victor Bers

Under the Athenian democracy, litigants were expected to speak for themselves, though they could memorize a speech written for them. The texts of about one hundred judicial speeches of the genos dikanikon (the forensic genre) have survived, all attributed to Demosthenes or another of the ten writers of canonical status. These professionals wrote either for themselves or members of a small elite. Victor Bers argues that men too poor to afford a professionally written speech frequently spoke before judicial bodies in procedures crucial to their status, wealth, or even their lives, and that these amateur performances often manifested an unmanly yielding to emotions of anger or fear. Professional speech, Bers seeks to demonstrate, was to a large degree crafted in reaction to amateur stumbling.

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書名 Genos dikanikon : amateur and professional speech in the courtrooms of classical Athens
著作者等 Bers, Victor
シリーズ名 Hellenic studies
出版元 Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University;Distributed by Harvard University Press
刊行年月 2009
ページ数 ix, 159 p.
大きさ 23 cm
ISBN 9780674032033
NCID BA91095047
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言語 ギリシア語(1453年以降)
英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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