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Beschreibung:

IX, 345 Seiten / p. 23,6 x 2,5 x 16,0 cm, Originalhardcover.

Bemerkung:

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - The corpus of the Attic orators has long been recognized as a source for information about the mindset and life of ordinary Athenians. Gunther Martin?s study contributes to a differentiated understanding of religion in Athenian public discourse by examining the references to religious beliefs, institutions, and events and the use made of them in the oratorical corpus. Martin first analyses the rhetorical strategies behind the employment of religion in each of Demosthenes? public forensic speeches and links them with their legal, historical, and social background, finding that arguments based on religion are not used randomly. He explores how the prominent orators differ in the sets of motifs they employ, in their persuasive strategies, and in the image they convey of themselves. In this way he throws light on the relationship between orators and their audience. -- In the second part Martin deals with deliberative and private speeches, in which religion plays a much less prominent role. In these settings orators dispense with denigration and most other open use of religious argumentation. Martin shows how, instead, in the assembly the use of religious ideas can serve as a signal that helps to characterize the political situation. In the private speeches it is most prominently the religious form of procedural elements that is exploited. Martin presents various factors that could influence the appropriateness of references to religion, demonstrating that, in order to properly interpret speeches, we need to consider, for example, the public relevance of a case. ISBN 9780199560226