Gender, Status, and Space in Athenian Oratory and Society

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Av Hilary J. C. Lehmann, Christine Plastow

3 849 kr

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Intellectual shifts in the late 20th century led to profound change in the questions that could be asked about the ancient world; the chapters in this volume are inspired by the way these shifts have affected scholars’ attitude towards and use of Athenian oratory in the study of social history.Readers will encounter some of the most up-to-date directions of enquiry in the social historical study of the Athenian orators. Case studies from across the corpus of the orators explore themes in gender, status, and space as well as their intersections. The contributors to this volume, primarily early career researchers representing a range of nationalities and academic positions, combine philological and social-historical methodologies with disciplinarily diverse contemporary theoretical frameworks, including spatial analysis, queer theory, and disability theory.Gender, Status, and Space in Athenian Oratory and Society is intended for students and scholars of the Athenian orators and of Athenian social history, and is designed to be accessible to readers without extensive knowledge of ancient Greek.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-05-07
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor336
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032493084

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Hilary J. C. Lehmann is an Associate Professor of Classics at Knox College (Illinois). Her research focuses on representations of home and family in Athenian rhetoric, intersections of mobility and identity in Athenian drama, and narrative desire in Herodotus and the ancient Greek novel.Christine Plastow is a Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University, UK. Her research has two main strands: the study of Athenian forensic oratory from rhetorical, socio-historical, and legal perspectives, and practice-as-research work on the theatrical reception of myth.

Introduction - Hilary J. C. Lehmann and Christine Plastow; 1. Identification of citizen women in the Attic orators. A reconsideration from Demosthenes 27–29 and 44 - Nicolas Siron; 2. Women and place in the speeches of Isaios - Allison Glazebrook; 3. Do you even lift, bro? Sport and embodied masculinities in the Attic orators - Jessica Penny Evans; 4. The stammering barbarian: the body politics of villainy in the speeches of Aeschines - Allison Das; 5. Punishing the disadvantaged: status-defining penalties and their ideology in classical Athens - Janek Kucharski; 6. The portrayal of slaves in forensic oratory and the connection with enslaved people in real life - Eleni Volonaki; 7. Labor, agency, and the condition of slaves and freedpersons in 4th century Athens - Javal Coleman; 8. Metics across boundaries: inhabitants’ polis and spatial narratives in Athenian forensic oratory - Mengzhen Yue; 9. The spaces of insult in the corpus of Attic orators - Jean-Noël Allard; 10. Reimagined space in the orators - Guy Westwood; 11. Space and reconciliation in Athens after the Thirty - Christine Plastow; 12. Topographies of affection: the space of kinship in Athenian inheritance speeches - Hilary J. C. Lehmann; 13. Domestic space and Aphobus’ guilt in Demosthenes 27, The First Speech Against Aphobus - Peter A. O’Connell.