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Law, rhetoric, and comedy in classical Athens : essays in honour of Douglas M. MacDowell / editors, D.L. Cairns and R.A. Knox ; contributors, Ilias Arnaoutoglou ... [et al.].

Title
Law, rhetoric, and comedy in classical Athens : essays in honour of Douglas M. MacDowell / editors, D.L. Cairns and R.A. Knox ; contributors, Ilias Arnaoutoglou ... [et al.].
Publication
Swansea : Classical Press of Wales ; Oakville, CT : Distributor in the United States of America, David Brown Book Co., 2004.

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Additional Authors
  • MacDowell, Douglas M. (Douglas Maurice)
  • Cairns, Douglas L.
  • Knox, Ronald A. (Ronald Alexander)
  • Arnaoutoglou, Ilias, 1964-
Description
xxiii, 296 p. : ill., port.; 25 cm.
Summary
Papers presented at a conference, Athenian Law and Life, held in Glasgow, 30 June-2 July 2001.
Subject
  • MacDowell, Douglas M
  • 500 b.C.-300 b.C
  • Law, Greek > Congresses
  • Rhetoric, Ancient > Congresses
  • Greek drama (Comedy) > History and criticism > Congresses
  • Athens (Greece) > Politics and government
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • History
  • Festschrifts (form)
Note
  • Papers presented at a conference, held in Glasgow, June 30-July 2, 2001.
Bibliography (note)
  • "Douglas M. MacDowell publications on classical subjects": p. xv-xxiii.
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Aspects of oral law in archaic Greece / Ilias Arnaoutoglou -- Writing Athenian law / Michael Gagarin -- Law of procedure in Attic inscriptions / Gerhard Thür -- Contracts in Athens / David C. Mirhady -- Textual arguments for the date of the In Alcibiadem in the corpus of Andokides / Luisa Prandi -- Antiphon the revolutionary / Michael J. Edwards -- Revisiting the herms and the mysteries / SC. Todd -- Andocides' defence and MacDowell's solution / Edwin Carawan -- Lysias for pleasure? / Stephen Usher -- Antiphon's daughter / Christopher Carey -- Isokrates for hire : some preliminaries to a commentary on Isokrates 16-21 / David Whitehead -- Stirring up dicastic anger / Lene Rubinstein -- Comedy and the unspeakable / Alan H. Sommerstein -- Aristophanes and the Athenian assembly / P.J. Rhodes -- The limits of allegory and allusion in Aristophanes / Kenneth Dover -- From sacrifice to feast : a ritual pattern in Aristophanic comedy / Pavlos Sfyroeras -- Menander's Epitrepontes in the light of the new papyri / W.G. Arnott.
ISBN
  • 0954384555
  • 9780954384555
LCCN
^^2005298206
OCLC
  • 57501127
  • SCSB-11404932
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library