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Libanius : ten mythological and historical declamations : introduction, translation, and notes
- Title
- Libanius : ten mythological and historical declamations : introduction, translation, and notes / translated by Robert J. Penella.
- Author
- Libanius
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- ©2020
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Penella, Robert J.
- Description
- x, 239 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- This book offers translations of ten rhetorical declamations of the fourth-century AD sophist Libanius of Antioch and some related texts, almost all appearing for the first time in a modern language. In these works the declaimer impersonates such mythological or historical figures as Poseidon, Paris, Achilles, and Orestes, either in court (as prosecutor or defendant) or by trying to persuade his audience to take a course of action. The texts illustrate the sophist's eloquence and had an educational purpose in the schools, but were also delivered before adult audiences. They also put the Hellenic past on display for audiences of the Greek East in the Roman Empire. The annotated translations are accompanied by analyses of their themes, structure, and argumentation.
- Uniform Title
- Declamationes. Selections (Penella). English
- Alternative Title
- Declamationes.
- Ten mythological and historical declamations
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Translations.
- Speeches.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-232) and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Ancient Greek
- Contents
- Declamation 3. An ambassadorial oration to the Trojans in behalf of Helen : Menelaus -- Declamation 4. An ambassadorial oration to the Trojans on behalf of Helen : Odysseus -- Declamation 5. Achilles's reply to Odysseus's ambassadorial speech of engreaty -- Declamation 6. Orestes -- Declamation 7. Poseidon -- Declamation 8. Ares in reply -- Declamation 11. Cimon asking to be imprisoned instead of his father -- Declamation 13. The Corinthian oration against the Athenians -- Declamation 14. Callaeschrus and Critias -- Declamation 24. Defense of Archidamus.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-4610
- ISBN
- 9781108481373
- 110848137X
- 9781108611459 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 1129259438
- Author
- Libanius, author.
- Title
- Libanius : ten mythological and historical declamations : introduction, translation, and notes / translated by Robert J. Penella.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-232) and index.
- Language
- Translated from the Ancient Greek
- Added Author
- Penella, Robert J., translator.
- Other Form:
- Ebook version : 9781108611459
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-4610