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The Devil's in the Detail: Including 'irrelevant' details in homicide narratives.
No full textThe question of relevance in the Athenian courts has been contended in recent scholarship. The traditional view held that the forensic speeches were littered with material highly irrelevant to the case at hand, and thus that there cannot have been any restrictions placed on the relevance of material presented to the courts, or that if there were restrictions, they were almost entirely disregarded. 1 More recently, scholars have reassessed this ‘irrelevant’ material through a different frame, and suggested that, although it may not fit modern legal standards of relevance, it would be admissible to an ancient Athenian court operating under rules that allowed only relevant material to be mentioned in court. 2 The question of whether this rule existed, and if so, whether it was regularly broken, is still under debate
The sycophant’s farm: Animals and rhetoric in Against Aristogeiton I
Get PDFΣΤΟ ΑΡΘΡΟ αυτό επιχειρώ να δείξω τους τρόπους με τους οποίους η σύγκριση του Αριστογείτονα με μια σειρά από ζώα εξυπηρετεί τους ρητορικούς στόχους του Δημοσθένη. Βασιζόμενος στο δίπολο φύσις/νόμος, ο Δημοσθένης παραλληλίζει τη συκοφαντική δραστηριότητα του αντιπάλου του με την επιθετικότητα των άγριων ζώων. Με τον τρόπο αυτό υπογραμμίζει την αντικοινωνική και απάνθρωπη συμπεριφορά των συκοφαντών, οι οποίοι εκμεταλλεύονται τη δυνατότητα που τους παρέχει το αθηναϊκό δίκαιο να ασκούν αγωγές ως βουλόμενοι εξυπηρετώντας αθέμιτα προσωπικά τους συμφέροντα. Υποστηρίζω, επίσης, ότι προκειμένου να αναδείξει την υποκριτική συμπεριφορά των συκοφαντών, ο Δημοσθένης αξιοποιεί μύθους που αναδεικνύουν τη δίβουλη φύση των σκύλων: ο Αριστογείτων προσποιείται ότι είναι φύλακας του δήμου, αλλά στην πραγματικότητα επιβουλεύεται το δημόσιο συμφέρον. Τέλος, προτείνω ότι η ακραία αυτή επίθεση του Δημοσθένη στον Αριστογείτονα ενδεχομένως να είχε πολιτικά κίνητρα.ΣΤΟ ΑΡΘΡΟ αυτό επιχειρώ να δείξω τους τρόπους με τους οποίους η σύγκριση του Αριστογείτονα με μια σειρά από ζώα εξυπηρετεί τους ρητορικούς στόχους του Δημοσθένη. Βασιζόμενος στο δίπολο φύσις/νόμος, ο Δημοσθένης παραλληλίζει τη συκοφαντική δραστηριότητα του αντιπάλου του με την επιθετικότητα των άγριων ζώων. Με τον τρόπο αυτό υπογραμμίζει την αντικοινωνική και απάνθρωπη συμπεριφορά των συκοφαντών, οι οποίοι εκμεταλλεύονται τη δυνατότητα που τους παρέχει το αθηναϊκό δίκαιο να ασκούν αγωγές ως βουλόμενοι εξυπηρετώντας αθέμιτα προσωπικά τους συμφέροντα. Υποστηρίζω, επίσης, ότι προκειμένου να αναδείξει την υποκριτική συμπεριφορά των συκοφαντών, ο Δημοσθένης αξιοποιεί μύθους που αναδεικνύουν τη δίβουλη φύση των σκύλων: ο Αριστογείτων προσποιείται ότι είναι φύλακας του δήμου, αλλά στην πραγματικότητα επιβουλεύεται το δημόσιο συμφέρον. Τέλος, προτείνω ότι η ακραία αυτή επίθεση του Δημοσθένη στον Αριστογείτονα ενδεχομένως να είχε πολιτικά κίνητρα
Gorgias : an edition of the extant texts and fragments with commentary and introduction
Get PDFThis thesis is a commentary on G.'s extant works and fragments which consists in three main parts: an Introduction, the Greek text, and notes on the text and fragments. a) The Introduction offers an account of G.'s life which is based on the information provided by ancient authors, a discussion of the stylistic features of his prose - along with a presentation of the criticism of his style by ancient authorities - and an analysis of the recurring argumentative schemata that underlie G.'s extant work. b) The Greek text, as it stands, embodies the readings that I adopt. c) The commentary on the extant texts and fragments is normally preceded by short Introductions, which are pertinent to the main problems of interpretation posed by the individual texts. The notes themselves normally include: i) a presentation of the textual problems and the possible solutions which have been proposed by previous scholars, together with the arguments that support the readings adopted in the text, ii) explanation of the text and its stylistic characteristics, iii) discussion of the individual arguments, and their role in the reasoning as a whole, and iv) where appropriate an analysis of the philosophical issues raised by the texts themselves
Kinky stories from the rostrum: storytelling in Apollodorus\u27 Against Neaira
No full textIn this paper I explore Apollodorus’ narrative in his speech Against Neaira. By using recent scholarly work on the function and purposes of forensic narratives, I argue that the diegesis of the speech compensates for Apollodorus’ lack of factual evidence. Apollodorus’ story is so designed as to assimilate Phano with Neaira. This assimilation enabled Apollodorus to stress the repercussions of Stephanus’ cohabitation with a former courtesan upon the stability of the city. At the same time, Apollodorus’ narrative aims at simplification, thereby providing jurors with a clear (yet misleading) conceptual framework on the basis of which he invites them to decide the case. Finally, Apollodorus’ story, like all good lawyers’ stories, is marked by timelines and therefore incorporates current social anxieties concerning civic identity.Dimos Spatharas teaches ancient Greek Literature at the Department of Philology of the Universityof Crete. He has recently produced a commentary on Isocrates’ Against Lochites. His published papers focus on the Sophists, the Attic orators and the law and society of classical Athens
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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