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Lycurgus: Against Leocrates (Hardcover)
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Lycurgus: Against Leocrates (Hardcover)
Series: Clarendon Ancient History Series
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This volume provides readers with a new translation and up to date
historical and rhetorical commentary on the only extant speech of
the Athenian leader Lycurgus (390s/380s-324 BCE), one of Athens'
most influential statesman and orators. His prosecutorial speech,
Against Leocrates, delivered in 330 BCE, indicted his compatriot
for treason, claiming that he fled Athens after the battle of
Chaeronea when the city was under threat of attack by Philip II of
Macedonia, though this attack never materialized. Although
Leocrates was acquitted after the evenly split jury ultimately came
down in favour of the defence, the speech is much more than a
condemnation of an alleged misconduct: it provides valuable
information on the historical and political events around Chaeronea
and offers Lycurgus' vision of what Athens could and should do in
those circumstances, in light of models which he fashioned from
Athenian and other Greek mythical and historical pasts. Not only
his legal and rhetorical strategies and the merits of the case are
examined here, but also what the speech tells us about his and his
contemporaries' perceptions of patriotism, their religious beliefs,
views of desirable citizenship, and the tensions between the
individual and the state. A detailed introduction complements the
new English translation of the speech with an authoritative account
of its history and manuscript tradition, as well as an overview of
the trial's procedure, Lycurgus' motives for initiating it, and
Leocrates' defence. It also provides a survey of Athenian democracy
and judicial system in the late fourth century BCE which will be
invaluable for readers new to the text, covering Lycurgus' career,
his ideology and program for Athens, and what these meant to
individual Athenians and democracy, while the in-depth commentary
analysing the historical, legal, and rhetorical facets of this
multi-layered and unique oration will be of use to both students
and advanced scholars of ancient Greek history and rhetoric.
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