The Orator Demades: Classical Greece Reimagined through Rhetoric 1st Edition Sviatoslav Dmitirev

The Orator Demades: Classical Greece Reimagined through Rhetoric 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780197517840, 0197517846

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0197517846
• ISBN-13: 9780197517840
• Author: Sviatoslav Dmitriev

This is the first monograph in English about Demades, an influential Athenian politician from the fourth century B.C. An orator whose fame outlived him for hundreds of years, he was an acquaintance and collaborator of many political and military leaders of classical Greece, including the Macedonian king Philip II, his son and successor Alexander III (the Great), and the orator Demosthenes.An overwhelming portion of the available evidence on Demades dates to at least three centuries after his death and, often, much later. Contextualizing the sources within their historical and cultural framework, The Orator Demades delineates how later rhetorical practices and social norms transformed his image to better reflect the educational needs and political realities of the Roman imperial and Byzantine periods.The evolving image of Demades illustrates the role that rhetoric, as the basis of education and edification under the Roman and Byzantine Empires, played in creating an alternate, inauthentic vision of the classical past that continues to dominate modern scholarship and popular culture. As a result, the book raises a general question about the problematic foundations of our knowledge of classical Greece.

Table contents:

Part I: Demades in the world of people
1. Making sense of the evidence
2. Texts and contexts
3. The rhetorical persona of Demades

Part II: Demades in the world of images
4. Paideia: education with edification
5. The art of being earnest
6. Demades the politician

Part III: Demades’s rhetorical history
7. History, rhetoric, and legends
8. Athenian political rhetoric
9. Demades’s last years and words

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