Isokrates: The Forensic Speeches (Nos. 16-21) 2 Hardback Volume Set: Introduction, Text, Translation and Commentary

by David Whitehead (Editor)

Overview

The Athenian Isokrates (436–338 BC) is well-known for his long career as an educator and pundit; but originally he wrote 'forensic' speeches, i.e. for delivery in court. Six of them survive (five from Athens, one from Aigina), on issues including assault, fraud and inheritance. Here for the first time, after a General Introduction, they are presented and analysed in depth as a self-contained group. The Greek text and a facing English translation - both new - are augmented by commentaries which juxtapose this material with other surviving writers in the genre (and with Isocrates' own later output). In the process, too, the speeches' historical background, personnel, legal context, rhetorical strategies and all other relevant topics are explored.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108303729
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	04/21/2022
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.78(h) x 2.80(d)

About the Author

David Whitehead Mria is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at Queen's University Belfast. After monographs on Athens' metics and demes, he has specialised in commentaries on Greek prose authors, including Aineias the Tactician (1990), Hypereides: The Forensic Speeches (2000), Philo Mechanicus: On Sieges (2016), and Xenophon: Poroi (2019).

Table of Contents

General introduction; Preamble to the text; Private prosecution of Euthynous for (?) withholding a deposit: support-speech by a friend of the plaintiff Nikias (no.21); Special plea to block Kallimachos' private prosecution for (?) damages (no.18); Private prosecution of Lochites for battery (no.20); On the horse-team (peri tou zeugous): defence of Alkibiades the Younger against Teisias' private prosecution for (?) ejectment (no.16); Banking speech ('trapezitikos'): private prosecution of passion for withholding a (bank-) deposit (no.17); Aiginetan speech ('Aiginetikos'): claim to inherit the estate of Thrasylochose of Siphnos (no.19).