Witnesses and Evidence in Ancient Greek Literature

Published by De Gruyter 2022

Witnesses and Evidence in Ancient Greek Literature

Edited by: Andreas Markantonatos , Vasileios Liotsakis and Andreas Serafim

Volume 123 in the series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110751970

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About this book

The fact that aspects of witnesses and evidence put them in the centre of the institutional and cultural (e.g. religious, literary) construction of ancient societies indicates that it is important to keep offering nuanced approaches to the topic of this volume. To advance knowledge of the processes of presenting witnesses and gathering, or constructing, evidence is, in fact, to better and more fully understand the ways in which deliberative Athenian democracy functions, what the core elements of political life and civic identity are, and how they relate to the system of using logos to make decisions. For, witnesses and evidence were important prerequisites of getting the Athenian citizenship and exerting the civic/political identity as a member of the community. It is important, therefore, all the matters that relate to information-gathering and decision-making to be examined anew. Emphasis can be placed on a variety of genres to allow scholars recreate the fullest and clearest possible image about the witnessing and evidencing in antiquity. Chapters in this volume include considerations of social, political, literary, and moral theory, alongside studies of the impact of information-gathering and decision-making in oratory and drama, with a steady focus on the application of key ideas and values in social and political justice to issues of pressing ethical concern.

Author / Editor information

A. Markantonatos and V. Liotsakis, University of the Peloponnese, Kalamata, Greece; A. Serafim, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction: Witness and Evidence in Legal, Oratorical and Other Literary Contexts in Antiquity Andreas Markantonatos, Vasileios Liotsakis and Andreas Serafim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Written and Oral Evidence
The Role of Written Documents in Athenian Trials Edward M. Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Rumour and Hearsay Evidence in the Athenian Law-courts Asako Kurihara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Part II: The Rhetoric of Information-Gathering and Decision- Making
Audience Memory as Evidence in the Trial on the Crown Guy Westwood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Additional Information in Witness Testimonies in Classical Athens Noboru Sato Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Self-Quotations as Witnesses and Evidence: The Case of Isocrates’ Antidosis Pasquale Massimo Pinto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Antiphon’s Witnesses: Extending the Earliest Greek Theories of Argumentation Robert Sullivan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Part III: Scripting Witnesses and Evidence: Prose and Verse Texts
The Questions in (Answering the Question about the Historicity of) Plato’s Apology of Socrates Andreas Serafim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Plato’s Apology of Socrates: The Rhetoric of Socrates’ Defence and the Foundation of the Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry Ioannis N. Perysinakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Witnesses and Evidence in Thucydides: The Institutional and Rhetorical Context of the Digression on the Tyrannicides Vasileios Liotsakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
The Torture of Prometheus David Mirhady Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Poet, Patron, Message: Witness-Roles and the Game of Truth in Epinician Eidography Margarita Sotiriou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Part IV: The Cultural Workings of Witnesses and Evidence
Information and Decision in Sophocles’ Trachiniae and Euripides’ Medea and Ino Smaro Nikolaidou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Scandals as Evidence in Attic Forensic Oratory: The Case of Aeschines’ Against Timarchus Rosalia Hatzilambrou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Notes on Editors and Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
Index Locorum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars and graduate students of ancient Greek prose (oratory, philosophy and historiography) and verse (drama) texts
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 306
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 1
- Tables: 1
Keywords: Witness; evidence; intertextuality; civic identity

eBook

Published: January 19, 2022
ISBN: 9783110751970

Hardcover

Published: January 31, 2022
ISBN: 9783110751161