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Antiphon the Athenian : Oratory, Law, and Justice in the Age of the Sophists / Michael Gagarin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (236 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780292796454
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 885/.01
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. THE SOPHISTIC PERIOD -- II. ANTIPHON: LIFE AND WORKS -- III. TRUTH -- IV. CONCORD, DREAM-INTERPRETATION -- V. THE TETRALOGIES -- VI. THE COURT SPEECHES -- VII. FROM THE SOPHISTS TO FORENSIC ORATORY -- APPENDIX A: TRUTH: THE PAPYRUS FRAGMENTS -- APPENDIX B: CONCORD: THE FRAGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS AND WORKS CITED -- CITATIONS FROM ANCIENT AUTHORS -- GENERAL INDEX
Summary: Antiphon was a fifth-century Athenian intellectual (ca. 480-411 BCE) who created the profession of speechwriting while serving as an influential and highly sought-out adviser to litigants in the Athenian courts. Three of his speeches are preserved, together with three sets of Tetralogies (four hypothetical paired speeches), whose authenticity is sometimes doubted. Fragments also survive of intellectual treatises on subjects including justice, law, and nature (physis), which are often attributed to a separate Antiphon the Sophist. Were these two Antiphons really one and the same individual, endowed with a wide-ranging mind ready to tackle most of the diverse intellectual interests of his day? Through an analysis of all these writings, this book convincingly argues that they were composed by a single individual, Antiphon the Athenian. Michael Gagarin sets close readings of individual works within a wider discussion of the fifth-century Athenian intellectual climate and the philosophical ferment known as the sophistic movement. This enables him to demonstrate the overall coherence of Antiphon's interests and writings and to show how he was a pivotal figure between the sophists and the Attic orators of the fourth century. In addition, Gagarin's argument allows us to reassess the work of the sophists as a whole, so that they can now be seen as primarily interested in logos (speech, argument) and as precursors of fourth-century rhetoric, rather than in their usual role as foils for Plato.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. THE SOPHISTIC PERIOD -- II. ANTIPHON: LIFE AND WORKS -- III. TRUTH -- IV. CONCORD, DREAM-INTERPRETATION -- V. THE TETRALOGIES -- VI. THE COURT SPEECHES -- VII. FROM THE SOPHISTS TO FORENSIC ORATORY -- APPENDIX A: TRUTH: THE PAPYRUS FRAGMENTS -- APPENDIX B: CONCORD: THE FRAGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS AND WORKS CITED -- CITATIONS FROM ANCIENT AUTHORS -- GENERAL INDEX

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Antiphon was a fifth-century Athenian intellectual (ca. 480-411 BCE) who created the profession of speechwriting while serving as an influential and highly sought-out adviser to litigants in the Athenian courts. Three of his speeches are preserved, together with three sets of Tetralogies (four hypothetical paired speeches), whose authenticity is sometimes doubted. Fragments also survive of intellectual treatises on subjects including justice, law, and nature (physis), which are often attributed to a separate Antiphon the Sophist. Were these two Antiphons really one and the same individual, endowed with a wide-ranging mind ready to tackle most of the diverse intellectual interests of his day? Through an analysis of all these writings, this book convincingly argues that they were composed by a single individual, Antiphon the Athenian. Michael Gagarin sets close readings of individual works within a wider discussion of the fifth-century Athenian intellectual climate and the philosophical ferment known as the sophistic movement. This enables him to demonstrate the overall coherence of Antiphon's interests and writings and to show how he was a pivotal figure between the sophists and the Attic orators of the fourth century. In addition, Gagarin's argument allows us to reassess the work of the sophists as a whole, so that they can now be seen as primarily interested in logos (speech, argument) and as precursors of fourth-century rhetoric, rather than in their usual role as foils for Plato.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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