Research Catalog

Title

Commentary on Demosthenes Against Leptines / with introduction, text, and translation Christos Kremmydas.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

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• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description
• Table of contents

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Additional Authors

• Kremmydas, Christos
• Demosthenes

Description

xi, 489 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Against Leptines is one of the most important speeches delivered by the famous Athenian orator Demosthenes, in which he argues against the abolishment of all honorific exemptions (ateleiai) from festival liturgies in the city of Athens. A source of information for Athenian history in the mid-fourth century BC, the speech broaches a number of issues vital to our understanding of classical Athenian society, politics, and legislation. The questions of public honours, civic ideology, and the themes of justice and injustice are central to the speech and have led to its popularity with audiences ever since the classical period. Kremmydas' volume is the first detailed commentary on the speech in any language since the 19th century. With an extensive introduction which lays the foundations for the key elements discussed in Against Leptines, the addition of the Greek text (adapted from M. R. Dilts's Oxford Classical Text of Demosthenes 20 ), and a facing English translation makes the commentary even more accessible to a wider scholarly audience. While the important historical and complex legal issues are given appropriate attention in the commentary, a special emphasis is given to the elucidation of the orator's rhetorical strategy and argumentation."--Publisher's website.

Subject

• Demosthenes
• Demosthenes, v384-v322
• Adversus Leptinem
• Greek literature > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Kommentar.

Note

• Text in English and Greek.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-482) and index.

Language (note)

• Text in English and Greek.

Call Number

JFD 13-1199

ISBN

• 9780199578139
• 0199578133

LCCN

2012372493

OCLC

742512014

Title

Commentary on Demosthenes Against Leptines / with introduction, text, and translation Christos Kremmydas.

Imprint

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-482) and index.

Language

Text in English and Greek.

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Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Table of contents

Added Author

Kremmydas, Christos.

Demosthenes. Adversus Leptinem.

Research Call Number

JFD 13-1199