Religious Discourse in Attic Oratory and Politics

The book offers a critical investigation of a wide range of features of religious discourse in the transmitted forensic, symbouleutic and epideictic orations of the Ten Attic Orators, a body of 151 speeches which represents the mature flourishing of the ancient art of public speaking and persuasion.

Autorentext

Andreas Serafim is a Research Fellow at the Research Centre for Greek and Latin Literature of the Academy of Athens. He is the author of a previous monograph, Attic Oratory and Performance (Routledge 2017).

Inhalt

Introduction

Chapter 1. Religious discourse in Attic oratory: A full survey

Chapter 2. Contextualizing religious discourse

Chapter 3. Reacting to the "airy nothing"

Chapter 4. Civic/political identity in religious discourse

Conclusion