The paper considers the Athenians’ reaction to the battle of Chaeronea in 338 B.C. as reflected in the oratory. The authors focus on the rhetoric of defeat and contrast it with the rhetoric of victory, which occurs in the same orators who remembered and commemorated the events of the Athenian glorious past in their orations. This paper also includes all relevant exempla from these orations, which deal with heroism and patriotism, on the one hand, and treachery, on the other hand. It is argued that an important rhetoric method was to make contrast between the present and the past wars as well as the patriotism and the treason in the speeches specially dealing with the defeats. It is concluded that the rhetorical and emotional representation ...
Athenian funeral orations did not simply celebrate Athenian military achievements or renew and augme...
International audienceThe defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian War was a central focus of contempor...
This thesis investigates the transmission and political reception of fourth-century Athenian politic...
The paper considers the Athenians’ reaction to the battle of Chaeronea in 338 B.C. as reflected in t...
Athenian funeral oration (epitaphios logos) belongs to the epideictic rhetoric. But according to Ari...
The Dynamics of Memory in Demosthenian Rhetoric in the mid-4th Century. How to Advise Athenians to B...
The words of defeat are divided between Trojans and Achaeans depending on the hazards of war. That i...
The Greek and Roman civilizations were established on the basis of a single religious and political ...
This chapter (in Greek) is included in Lessons of War III: Athenian Dramas, National Theatre Publica...
International audienceIt may seem somewhat odd to study the way by which the defeat of Aigos-Potamoi...
In the Greek schools of the Roman Empire, the handbooks of rhetoric (Progymnasmata) defined ekphrasi...
This dissertation examines the uses and meanings of the past in 4th-century Athenian public discours...
In my paper I would like to present an issue which is relatively seldom analysed by researchers of ...
War is competition on the grandest scale, and victory is the end product of competition. The winning...
International audienceWhen attempting to assess the critical strenghth of Euripides’ Trojan Women, r...
Athenian funeral orations did not simply celebrate Athenian military achievements or renew and augme...
International audienceThe defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian War was a central focus of contempor...
This thesis investigates the transmission and political reception of fourth-century Athenian politic...
The paper considers the Athenians’ reaction to the battle of Chaeronea in 338 B.C. as reflected in t...
Athenian funeral oration (epitaphios logos) belongs to the epideictic rhetoric. But according to Ari...
The Dynamics of Memory in Demosthenian Rhetoric in the mid-4th Century. How to Advise Athenians to B...
The words of defeat are divided between Trojans and Achaeans depending on the hazards of war. That i...
The Greek and Roman civilizations were established on the basis of a single religious and political ...
This chapter (in Greek) is included in Lessons of War III: Athenian Dramas, National Theatre Publica...
International audienceIt may seem somewhat odd to study the way by which the defeat of Aigos-Potamoi...
In the Greek schools of the Roman Empire, the handbooks of rhetoric (Progymnasmata) defined ekphrasi...
This dissertation examines the uses and meanings of the past in 4th-century Athenian public discours...
In my paper I would like to present an issue which is relatively seldom analysed by researchers of ...
War is competition on the grandest scale, and victory is the end product of competition. The winning...
International audienceWhen attempting to assess the critical strenghth of Euripides’ Trojan Women, r...
Athenian funeral orations did not simply celebrate Athenian military achievements or renew and augme...
International audienceThe defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian War was a central focus of contempor...
This thesis investigates the transmission and political reception of fourth-century Athenian politic...