Intellectual shifts in the late 20th century led to profound change in the questions that could be asked about the ancient world; the chapters in this volume are inspired by the way these shifts have affected scholars’ attitude towards and use of Athenian oratory in the study of social history.
Intellectual shifts in the late 20th century led to profound change in the questions that could be asked about the ancient world; the chapters in this volume are inspired by the way these shifts have affected scholars’ attitude towards and use of Athenian oratory in the study of social history.
Readers will encounter some of the most up-to-date directions of enquiry in the social historical study of the Athenian orators. Case studies from across the corpus of the orators explore themes in gender, status, and space as well as their intersections. The contributors to this volume, primarily early career researchers representing a range of nationalities and academic positions, combine philological and social-historical methodologies with disciplinarily diverse contemporary theoretical frameworks, including spatial analysis, queer theory, and disability theory.
Gender, Status, and Space in Athenian Oratory and Society is intended for students and scholars of the Athenian orators and of Athenian social history, and is designed to be accessible to readers without extensive knowledge of ancient Greek.
List of contributors ix Acknowledgements xii Introduction 1 HILARY J. C.
LEHMANN AND CHRISTINE PLASTOW 1 Identification of citizen women in the Attic
orators: a reconsideration from Demosthenes 2729 and 44 15 NICOLAS SIRON 2
Women and place in the speeches of Isaios 36 ALLISON GLAZEBROOK 3 Do you even
lift, bro? Sport and embodied masculinities in the Attic orators 56 JESSICA
PENNY EVANS 4 The stammering barbarian: the body politics of villainy in the
speeches of Aeschines 79 ALLISON DAS 5 Punishing the disadvantaged:
status-defining penalties and their ideology in classical Athens 95 JANEK
KUCHARSKI 6 The portrayal of slaves in forensic oratory and the connection
with enslaved people in real life 113 ELENI VOLONAKI 7 Labour, agency, and
the condition of slaves and freedpersons in 4th-century Athens 133 JAVAL
COLEMAN 8 Metics across boundaries: inhabitants polis and spatial narratives
in Athenian forensic oratory 154 MENGZHEN YUE 9 The spaces of insult in the
corpus of Attic orators 183 JEAN-NOËL ALLARD 10 Reimagined space in the
orators 196 GUY WESTWOOD 11 Space and reconciliation in Athens after the
Thirty 216 CHRISTINE PLASTOW 12 Topographies of affection: the space of
kinship in Athenian inheritance speeches 232 HILARY J. C. LEHMANN 13 Domestic
space and Aphobus guilt in Demosthenes 27, The First Speech Against Aphobus
252 PETER A. OCONNELL Index 273
Hilary J. C. Lehmann is an associate professor of classics at Knox College (Illinois). Her research focuses on representations of home and family in Athenian rhetoric, intersections of mobility and identity in Athenian drama, and narrative desire in Herodotus and the ancient Greek novel.
Christine Plastow is a senior lecturer in classical studies at the Open University, UK. Her research has two main strands: the study of Athenian forensic oratory from rhetorical, socio-historical, and legal perspectives and practice as-research work on the theatrical reception of myth.
