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Preface
Sources
Annals
Introduction
Antiphon: Life
Antiphon: Style
Antiphon: Works
Andokides: Life
Andokides: Style
Andokides: Works
Lysias: Life
Lysias: Style
Lysias: Epideictic and deliberative speeches
Lysias: Forensic Speeches in Public Causes
Lysias: Forensic Speeches in Private Causes; Miscellaneous Writings; Fragments
Isokrates: Life
Isokrates: Theory of Culture
Isokrates: Style
Isokrates: Classification of Works; Scholastic Writings
Isokrates: Political Writings
Isokrates: Forensic speeches
Isokrates: Letters and Fragments
Isaeos: Life
Isaeos: Style
Isaeos: Works
The Matured Civil Eloquence.
Retrospect.
The Decline and the Revival.
section:
The Augustan Atticism.
Caecilius and Dionysios.
Plan of this book.
The English word ‘orator’ compared with Latin and with Greek
ῥήτωρ
Relations between ancient Oratory and ancient Prose
Ancient Oratory a fine art.
This conception is originally Greek.
Characteristics of Modern Oratory
Modern approximations to the theory of Ancient Oratory.
Modern Oratory— its greatest triumphs won by sudden bursts.
Special characteristics of Greek oratory
Why Greek art became plastic rather than picturesque.
Mistake of conceiving Greek Tragedy as the daughter of Sculpture
The plastic character as manifested in Greek oratory.
The personalities of ancient oratory.
Superiority of Greek to Roman oratory.
Early History of Greek Oratory.
The intellectual turning-point— first conception of a literary Prose.
Political turning-point— opening of secure intercourse between the cities
External influences: The Practical culture of Ionia
External influences: The Sicilian Rhetoric.
Empedokles.
Korax.
Tisias.
Gorgias.
Perikles
History of Athenian oratory begins with Antiphon
Athens the chief seat of Civil Oratory.
Political aspect of Athenian Oratory.
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Lysias: Forensic Speeches in Public Causes
IV. Causes relating to a scrutiny (
δοκιμασία
) before the senate; especially of officials designate.
Lysias: Forensic Speeches in Private Causes; Miscellaneous Writings; Fragments
Isaeos: Works
The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos. Sir Richard C. Jebb. London. Macmillan. 1876.
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