Homicide in the attic orators /

"This study identifies specific features in the legal procedure and social perception of homicide in Athens in the time of the orators, and examines how these features affected and were represented and utilised in forensic rhetoric. The socially transgressive nature of the crime in Athens resul...

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Main Author: Plastow, Christine (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2020
Series:Routledge monographs in classical studies
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505 1 |a Introduction : the landscape of athenian homicide -- The ideolody of homicide : shape and usage -- Religion, ritual, and the rhetoric of pollution -- Rhetoric and relevance -- Hows and whys : rhetorics of intent, motive, and motivation -- Conclusion 
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