The rhetoric of the past in Demosthenes and Aeschines : oratory, history, and politics in classical Athens / Guy Westwood.

Offering an incisive analysis of all surviving public speeches of contemporaries and bitter rivals Demosthenes and Aeschines, this volume examines how democratic politicians in classical Athens created versions of the city's past to persuade mass decision-making audiences, cement their own auth...

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Main Author: Westwood, Guy, 1986- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford classical monographs.
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