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A collection of fourteen essays by influential scholars on the `Attic Orators', the ten or so speechwriters who developed rhetoric in democratic Athens from c.420 to c.320 BC. All Greek quotations have been translated. - ;The `Attic Orators' have left us a hundred speeches for lawsuits, a body of work that reveals an important connection between evolving rhetoric and the jury trial. The essays in this volume explore that formative linkage, representing the main directions of recent work on the Orators: the emergence of technical manuals and ghost-written speeches for prospective litigants; the

Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek --- Political oratory --- Rhetoric, Ancient. --- Oratory, Ancient. --- History and criticism. --- Athens (Greece) --- Intellectual life. --- Politics and government. --- Oratory, Ancient --- Rhetoric, Ancient --- Ancient rhetoric --- Classical languages --- Greek language --- Greek rhetoric --- Latin language --- Latin rhetoric --- Parliamentary oratory --- Political speaking --- Oratory --- Politics, Practical --- Public speaking --- Rhetoric --- History and criticism --- Political aspects --- Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek - History and criticism. --- Political oratory - Greece - Athens. --- Athens (Greece) - Intellectual life. --- Athens (Greece) - Politics and government.