Keeping To The Point In Athenian Forensic Oratory
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Keeping to the Point in Athenian Forensic Oratory
Author: Alberto Esu
language: en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date: 2025-01-31
When a litigant initiated a lawsuit in Classical Athens, he submitted a written plaint to the relevant magistrate. This document contained his name, the name of the defendant, the legal procedure employed, and the specific violations of part of the law. If the magistrate accepted the plaint, the legal charges were read to the court before and after the litigants spoke, and the judges swore in their oath to vote only about the charges in the plaint, that is, whether the defendant had violated a specific law or not. In private suits, litigants took an oath to 'keep to the point', that is, discuss only the legal charges. In public cases litigants were under the same obligation. This volume examines several Athenian court speeches and show that litigants paid close attention to legal relevance in court. Consequently, the essays in this volume make the case for integrated approach to rhetoric and law emphasizing an institutional understanding of Athenian forensic oratory.
Keeping to the Point in Athenian Forensic Oratory
The first volume to connect legal institutions and court arguments in a series of close readings of selected speeches from the Attic Orators
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