The book offers a critical investigation of a wide range of
features of religious discourse in the transmitted forensic,
symbouleutic and epideictic orations of the Ten Attic Orators, a
body of 151 speeches which represents the mature flourishing of the
ancient art of public speaking and persuasion. Serafim focuses on
how the intersections between such religious discourse and the
political, legal and civic institutions of classical Athens help to
shed new light on polis identity-building and the construction of
an imagined community in three institutional contexts – the law
court, the Assembly and the Boulē: a community that unites its
members and defines the ways in which they make decisions. After a
full-scale survey of the persistently and recurrently used features
of religious discourse in Attic oratory, he contextualizes and
explains the use of specific patterns of religious discourse in
specific oratorical contexts, examining the means or restrictions
that these contexts generate for the speaker. In doing so, he
explores the cognitive/emotional and physical/sensory reactions of
the speaker and the audience when religious stimuli are provided in
orations, and how this contributes to the construction of civic and
political identity in classical Athens. Religious Discourse in
Attic Oratory and Politics will be of interest to anyone working on
classical Athens, particularly its legal institutions, on ancient
rhetoric, and ancient Greek religion and politics.
General
| Imprint: |
Routledge
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies |
| Release date: |
September 2023 |
| First published: |
2021 |
| Authors: |
Andreas Serafim
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
164 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-367-61084-5 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-367-61084-1 |
| Barcode: |
9780367610845 |
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