The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos, Volume 1

Richard Claverhouse Jebb

Macmillan and Company, 1876 - Greek orations

Contents

• ANNALS: xxxvii
• Mistake of conceiving Greek Tragedy as the daughter: lv
• INTRODUCTION: lxiii
• The English word orator compared with the Latin: lxix
• 1 Training of speakers 2: lxxv
• They are sister forms of that one tendency which we call: lxxviii
• Characteristics of modern oratory: lxxix
• The intellectual turning pointfirst conception of: lxxxix
• Use of quotation: xci
• Rhetoric and Popular Dialectic at Athens from 450 B C: c
• Athens the chief seat of Civil Oratory Political morality: cvi
• Their historical significance: cx
• The political turningpointopening of secure intercourse: cxii
• Political development of the Sicilian cities: cxviii
• Gorgias: cxxiv
• CHAPTER I: 1
• Its secondary motives 1 the oral tradition of poetry: 2
• Its general characteristics: 3
• ANTIPHON STYLE: 18
• Antiphons styleits dignity: 24
• His dictionits purity: 32
• CHAPTER III: 45
• Second Tetralogy: 52
• Speech on the Choreutes: 62
• Authorship of the treatises On Truth: 68
• ANDOKIDES LIFE: 71
• Life of Andokides from 415 to 402 B C: 79
• The Anarchy: 86
• CHAPTER V: 88
• Comparative neglect of him by the ancient critics: 94
• The tact of Lysias His humour: 96
• His method is simple anλous and inartificial akaτá: 100
• His proneness to low comedy: 107
• The two parties in the Council: 109
• His services to the prose: 112
• Speech On his Return: 113
• Lysias the representative of the Plain Style: 158
• CHAPTER IX: 199
• The Olympiakos: 204
• a Plea for the Constitution: 211
• Indictment for proposing an Unconstitutional Measure: 229
• The faculty of speechits place in early Greek Democracy: 234
• Causes relating to a Scrutiny dokiμaσía before: 242
• Causes relating to Military Offences λιποταξίουάστρα: 256
• Trial and Condemnation of Antiphon: 273
• Causes relating to Impiety γραφαὶ ἀσεβείας ἱεροσυ: 281
• CHAPTER XI: 293
• Oration: 300
• Fragments: 310

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos, Volume 1; The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos, Richard Claverhouse Jebb
• Author: Richard Claverhouse Jebb
• Publisher: Macmillan and Company, 1876
• Original from: Cornell University
• Digitized: Aug 9, 2012