The Orator Demades

Classical Greece Reimagined Through Rhetoric

Sviatoslav Dmitriev (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

368 Seiten

2021
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-751782-6 (ISBN)

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This is the first monograph in English about Demades, an influential Athenian politician from the fourth century B.C. An orator whose fame outlived him for hundreds of years, he was an acquaintance and collaborator of many political and military leaders of classical Greece, including the Macedonian king Philip II, his son and successor Alexander III (the Great), and the orator Demosthenes.

An overwhelming portion of the available evidence on Demades dates to at least three centuries after his death and, often, much later. Contextualizing the sources within their historical and cultural framework, The Orator Demades delineates how later rhetorical practices and social norms transformed his image to better reflect the educational needs and political realities of the Roman imperial and Byzantine periods.

The evolving image of Demades illustrates the role that rhetoric, as the basis of education and edification under the Roman and Byzantine Empires, played in creating an alternate, inauthentic vision of the classical past that continues to dominate modern scholarship and popular culture. As a result, the book raises a general question about the problematic foundations of our knowledge of classical Greece.

Sviatoslav Dmitriev is an Associate Professor of History at Ball State University. He has published several books and articles on ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine history.

Preface
INTRODUCTION: Approximating the historical Demades

PART ONE: Demades in the world of people
Chapter 1. Making sense of the evidence
Chapter 2. Texts and contexts
Chapter 3. The rhetorical persona of Demades

PART TWO: Demades in the world of images
Chapter 4. Paideia: education with edification
Chapter 5. The art of being earnest
Chapter 6. Demades the politician

PART THREE: Demades's rhetorical history
Chapter 7. History, rhetoric, and legends
Chapter 8. Athenian political rhetoric
Chapter 9. Demades's last years and words

EPILOGUE: Constructing the rhetorical Demades

APPENDIX. Interpreting ps.-Demades's On the Twelve Years

Abbreviations and Select Bibliography
Index of sources
Index of personal names, technical terms, and important words

Erscheinungsdatum	24.02.2021
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	236 x 160 mm
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	0-19-751782-X / 019751782X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-751782-6 / 9780197517826
Zustand	Neuware